wine users - Apr 2006 - Re: Internet Explorer Installation

Stephen Bauman wrote:
> I'm trying to install MS IE 6 SP1. I'm using Fedora Core 5 and the
Wine
> that comes with wine.0.9.11-1.fc5.rpm from the distribution.
>
> "Setup was unable to download the required components. Please make
sure
> you are connected to the Internet or try to run Setup again later."
>
> I'm definitely connected. Are there any settings that are required for
> Wine, that I should set manually?
To install IE6 with the latest wine, you have to copy a native
inseng.dll to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32, then run ie6setup.exe
with native advpack like so:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES=advpack=n wine ie6setup.exe

Wine's advpack is being implemented, and the setup should work without
native advpack by the next release (hopefully.)

--
James Hawkins

Ok, I know this is going to be a stupid question, but by native version of 
inseng.dll do you mean native to Windows?

Also, I did the big bad and used Winetools (Read: Newbie), and am seeing why 
it may not have been the brightest thing I've ever done.

   I've done uninstalls of winetools and wine (using rpm -e) and
re-installed
wine 0.9.12 on Suse 10.0, I've looked several places, but I cannot find 
anywhere that gives instructions on how to get Wine up and running as stable 
as possible...i.e. with Internet Explorer 6.1 sp1 installed, because lots of 
windows programs requires some portion of it, and all of the little windows 
items that need to be installed to provide a reasonable environment for the 
windows apps to run.

   If anyone knows of where I can find such instructions, please let me know.  
If no such instructions exist in one place, I'll volunteer to gather them 
together and create a step by step install process, I'll just need some 
guidance.

Derek McGowan

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 18:39, truiken@gmail.com wrote:
> Stephen Bauman wrote:
> > I'm trying to install MS IE 6 SP1. I'm using Fedora Core 5 and
the Wine
> > that comes with wine.0.9.11-1.fc5.rpm from the distribution.
> >
> > "Setup was unable to download the required components. Please
make sure
> > you are connected to the Internet or try to run Setup again
later."
> >
> > I'm definitely connected. Are there any settings that are required
for
> > Wine, that I should set manually?
>
> To install IE6 with the latest wine, you have to copy a native
> inseng.dll to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32, then run ie6setup.exe
> with native advpack like so:
>
> WINEDLLOVERRIDES=advpack=n wine ie6setup.exe
>
> Wine's advpack is being implemented, and the setup should work without
> native advpack by the next release (hopefully.)
>
> --
> James Hawkins
>
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personally I think there is good purpose for winetools
but as wine keeps evolving it needs to be maintained and updated which
is difficult with limited resources.

If your only interested in IE then you should update the doco in the
app db at winehq
if your interests are wider and your willing to volunteer time then
your efforts may be better directed to helping the winetools effort.

Creating another set of instructions is just making yet another
resource for newbie's to have to refer to which has to be continually
updated.

One of the issues (for newbies) with wine is the information and any of
the tools built around it need to be constantly maintained or updated
as wine evolves to be of practical use. A new user (as apposed to
developer) just wants to install their software easily, they do not
want to have to refer to multiple encyclopedia's and wonder how up
todate or accurate the information is.