Re: [OT] Call to arms...so to speak
On 02/22/2005 12:18 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >> In this case they know there are problems with other browsers, well at
> >> least the consoler's manager did. As soon as I told him I did not use
> >> IE, he said, 'well when you get IE, give us a call'.
> >>
> >> Wonder when I'll be able to apt-get install IE, hopefully when Florida
> >> freezes over!
> >
> > This isn't quite 'apt-get internet-explorer', but this guy has a utility
> > that will fetch (or at least point you to where to get) the various
> > MS apps (MSN, IE, WMP) and then set them up in your ~/.wine/fake_windows
> > directory:
> >
> > http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html
> >
> > I did some tweaking since I had an already working setup for a few other
> > things in WINE, but it was not too difficult.
> >
> > If you run into trouble, just post about it and I might be able to
> > provide some extra pointers.
>
> Sorry for replying to myself, but I forgot to mention that could use
> bochs, qemu, win4lin or VMWare to run Windows within Linux and then
> run IE inside of that. Though, from the tone of your other messages, I
> am guessing that is not the solution you were looking for :-)
I use Win4Lin in part to deal with this problem of commercial websites (such
as banks and government) that are viewable or usable only with IE.
8)
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