IE installed under wine

[mikerob283]

a program that i'm tryin to install for work, requires IE 5.0 or later so i'm tryin to install IE 5.0 and it's on 79% on "installing components" but is just standing there staring at me... anyone successfully gotten IE installed under wine?


--EDIT--
ok to be better specific i don't wanna run IE just for the heck of it... some darned reason platypus needs IE 5.0 or higher... platypus/boardtown

i wanna run my workstation using linux but boardtown only has a windows installation

and after i get IE installed i'm gonna install boardtown in wine which like i said first thing it says is "need IE 5.0 or higher"

mozilla is a fine browser but this is just cause another program requires it...

[hard candy]

Running IE under wine is like taking a horse with three good legs and breaking another leg. Why not just run it under windows?
If the program is java based it may be able to run under linux. If it is Active-x based, you may have to run windows anyway.
Other options are codeweavers, cygwin.

[carbon-12]

It works perfectly in crossover but the installer always seemed to freeze /w generic wine.

[bajjer31]

Originally posted by hard candy
Running IE under wine is like taking a horse with three good legs and breaking another leg.

LOL! That's the first thing I thought when I saw the thread title, but I figured I'd give it the benefit of the doubt, then I read your reply :D

My thought was "Hey, I've got a '79 Gremlin and am trying to get it to run on bad gas...."

[JThundley]

I've run IE under crossover and it works. It displayed some flash on Cisco's Netacad site that I needed for school.
<rant>
They show each chapter's test score in a tiny little graphic that happens to be flash. WHY?!?!? Mozilla doesn't display them for some reason, but IE under crossover does.
</rant>

The sad thing is that native flash for Linux and flash in IE/crossover run at about the same slow speed.

[hlrguy]

Hmm, Flash works in my Mozilla, however, maybe try Opera if all you need is to get flash working. I have fooled training servers at work with Opera into thinking it is I.E., to let me take online courses. The only reason IE is required, needed active X to play the course credits, which just didn't happen with Opera.

My favorite spam was an online course instructor telling me that I had to have java once, and it ONLY works on Windows, there is no Linux version of java.

At the least, you can use Opera to pretend to be IE, get to that point and see what plugin type it needs for you to install. The only thing that can really stump you is if there are wma files to be played or Active X is mandatory.

http://www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/

hlrguy

[JThundley]

I can watch flash in Mozilla fine, just that one little part. I tried Opera with no luck.

[hard candy]

I took a look at platypus -boardtown (http://www.boardtown.com/platypus/default.asp)
It looks like it needs to work with Microsoft databases,which may force you to use Windows.I'm not sure that even if you got IE working that there wouldn't be some other need that windows would have to supply.
Even the best Jedi has to use the Darkside every once in a while. :)