Internet Explorer 6 under Wine

[Mariano Draghi]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun August 21 2005 10:39 pm, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> 
>>Incidentally, I installed wine yesterday. I compiled from source the
>>last release (20050725) w/o problems (previous releases had issues with
>>GCC4)
>>
> 
> I have a question regarding this. In the readme, it states that XFree86-devel 
> is needed, but FC4 doesn't use XFree86 but xorg-x11, correct? Do you know if 
> xorg-x11-devel is a suitable replacement for the XFree86-devel requirement? 
> Is that what you did?
>

Yes, xorg is a replacement of XFree86. Just install xorg-x11-devel.


>>
>>I followed the method described at Frank's Corner:
>>http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6
>>which is tested on wine 20050725
> 
> 
> On that page, he actually describes 3 methods: the sidenet utility, winetools 
> (which I know you've stated above won't work), and a third way which he 
> describes as a series of steps. Did you use sidenet or the series of steps he 
> outlined?
> 

I didn't try the sidenet method, because I was afraid it wouldn't work 
for the same reasons winetools doesn't work (both tools are similar).
I went directly with the series of steps.

-- 
Mariano