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1. EaStErDoM said on February 22, 2007 at 11:46 am

   Installation of IE6 worked fine with the stable package, but if i run this release, installation does nothing, it always shoes the shorthelp as if i run it with wrong options.

2. jim burns said on February 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm

   Slopes - “–hack-ie7-proxy-settings” - hahahaha

   EaStErDoM - Does it work with the “–no-gui” option? Maybe you don’t have pygtk or kommander? If you do have them, what distro are you using?

3. frits said on February 23, 2007 at 5:24 am

   Installation of ie6 and ie7 worked fine. Only some wine issues paused the install process.
   I had one problem with ie7: “tools” > “internet options” gives an erro that I cannot change the setting and need to contact the administrator.

4. frits said on February 23, 2007 at 7:10 am

   I think I understand the hack now:
   during the install process the user configures ie6, and these registry setting are used for ie7.
   Am I correct?

5. slopes said on February 23, 2007 at 2:35 pm

   frits, that’s right!

6. sean said on February 24, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   My old IE6 stopped working after upgrading Wine to the latest version (0.9.31), so I re-installed it with this beta 6 version and it’s working fine again.

   I like the new site design.

7. Pascal said on February 26, 2007 at 8:14 am

   During install, after I set up the proxy in IE 6 and close it, this is what I get:
   $ ./ies4linux --hack-ie7-proxy-settings
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
/home/pp/Desktop/ies4linux-2.5beta6/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py:399: GtkWarning: Invalid text buffer iterator: either the iterator is uninitialized, or the characters/pixbufs/widgets in the buffer have been modified since the iterator was created.
You must use marks, character numbers, or line numbers to preserve a position across buffer modifications.
You can apply tags and insert marks without invalidating your iterators,
but any mutation that affects 'indexable' buffer contents (contents that can be referred to by character offset)
will invalidate all outstanding iterators
gtk.main()
ui/pygtk/python-gtk.sh: line 6: 15717 Segmentation fault (core dumped) python "$IES4LINUX"/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py

   I then installed it with the “–no-gui” option and it succeeded, but IE 7 seems to not have gotten the proxy settings, it can’t load webpages. IE 6 can, though, and IE 7 is able to access and display local sites. I tried a third install, which failed three times due to various errors and finally succeeded, but I am still unable to access the http://www.
   I discovered that Popup-Menus ( tags) don’t work in this IE 7, is that correct?

   Ubuntu 6.10, up-to-date, wine 0.9.22

8. vecernik said on February 27, 2007 at 7:46 am

   well, ie7 runs with beta6, but browser doesn’t remember any cookies (and session). Content of password form fields are autocompleted and unvisible, but sending new value causes autocompeted value is appended to new value.
   “Inet Options” are disabled due to “restrictions”.
   Is it possible to fix this in registers?

   Ubuntu Edgy64, wine-0.9.31

9. Leon said on February 27, 2007 at 12:02 pm

   I am new to this linux and would like to know how to install AVG on it and it seems all my games want enternet explorer to run Slingo.com I am sick of all the garbage that Microsoft give me would love to have linux working right anybody help me please…Thanks
   Leon
   lem70_2@rogers.com

10. Chetan said on February 28, 2007 at 4:42 am

    I installed ie6 using this version of ies4linux on debian etch wine-0.9.25-1

    When i go to
    Tools->Internet Options->Security->Custom Level
    I find that the Settings box is empty. This box contains various settings (the ActiveX settings are what i needed) on the IE6 on WinXP. Is this a know problem. I searched the forums and found nothing much.

11. vroman said on February 28, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Script is not working the ./ies4linux command and what i returns at the end.. Let me know if you have more feeback

    ./ies4linux –hack-ie7-proxy-settings

    This script downloads and automagically installs multiple versions of
    Microsoft Internet Explorer on Wine.

    Without any option, IEs4Linux will:
    - install IE6
    - install Adobe Flash 9
    - create icons on Desktop and Menu
    - use folder: /home/administrator/.ies4linux

    You can configure other things:

    –install-ie55 Install IE5.5 in BASEDIR/ie55/
    –install-ie5 Install IE5 in BASEDIR/ie5/

    –no-flash Don’t install Adobe Flash Player 9
    –no-ie6 Don’t install IE 6

    –no-desktop-icon Don’t create an icon in Desktop
    –no-menu-icon Don’t insert icon on Menu

    –full-help Display all possible options

    administrator@admin-desktop:~/ies4linux-2.5beta6$

12. vroman said on February 28, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    My Company does not use a proxy.. Now what..?

13. nb said on March 1, 2007 at 2:16 am

    I installed ie7 with the hack, but it’s not working. ie6 is working.
    I see some dialog does not appear (find, about, …) should be possible the dialog that ask user and password for the proxy can’t be displayed?
    Is there an option to run ie7 (wine) on debug mode to see possible errors on console?

    I’m on Gentoo using wine-0.9.29

14. chavo said on March 1, 2007 at 5:33 am

    Installed and working great. The menu icons showed up in my KDE menus under internet, so no problem there. I’m running kubuntu but with a self compile KDE. I will test on my regualr kubuntu box shortly.

15. André de Castro Zorzo said on March 2, 2007 at 7:12 am

    how to permit cookies? It seems not active on ie7?

16. anna said on March 3, 2007 at 12:56 am

    Dude, you’re my hero. I’m running the latest script right now. Even if ie7 doesn’t play nice on my system I still wanted to say thanks for the awesome work!

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18. quixote said on March 4, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Looking through the blog comments and discussion, I seem to be the only person with this problem, but … anybody know what’s wrong?: Once I start installing (./ies4linux), and the script goes to http://download.microsoft.com/anyfile, it tells me it can’t resolve the host.

    Why not? I have access to the web from browser or command line (eg wget), so I don’t think it’s me. Has Microsoft taken all those files down?

    Hope you guys can give me some hints.
    Thanks!

19. petitchevalroux said on March 8, 2007 at 3:14 am

    If you experiment problem with ies4linux like vroman says at top, check that Kommander is install on your distro

20. Magus said on March 8, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    great work!

21. Mark Pinto said on March 14, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Error with Debian SID:

    markybob@peg:~/ies4linux-2.5beta6$ ./ies4linux
    /home/markybob/ies4linux-2.5beta6/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py:399: GtkWarning: Invalid text buffer iterator: either the iterator is uninitialized, or the characters/pixbufs/widgets in the buffer have been modified since the iterator was created.
    You must use marks, character numbers, or line numbers to preserve a position across buffer modifications.
    You can apply tags and insert marks without invalidating your iterators,
    but any mutation that affects ‘indexable’ buffer contents (contents that can be referred to by character offset)
    will invalidate all outstanding iterators
    gtk.main()
    ui/pygtk/python-gtk.sh: line 6: 5195 Segmentation fault python “$IES4LINUX”/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py

22. nirmv said on March 15, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    Hey, similar problem here.
    Segmentation fault on Ubuntu Feisty fresh install updated 3/15:

    nireut@nireut-desktop:~/ies4linux-2.5beta6$ ./ies4linux
    /home/nireut/ies4linux-2.5beta6/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py:268: GtkWarning: gtk_text_layout_real_invalidate: assertion `layout->wrap_loop_count == 0′ failed
    self.textbuffer.insert_with_tags(self.textbuffer.get_end_iter(), line, tag)
    /home/nireut/ies4linux-2.5beta6/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py:399: PangoWarning: pango_layout_get_iter: assertion `PANGO_IS_LAYOUT (layout)’ failed
    gtk.main()
    ui/pygtk/python-gtk.sh: line 6: 8477 Segmentation fault (core dumped) python “$IES4LINUX”/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py

23. Ram said on March 16, 2007 at 1:50 am

    I don’t require a proxy ( i directly connect to internet). How can i install ie7?

    Ram

24. Willem said on March 17, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    @Ram, I was confused not to see the option as well, but it is in the ‘Advanced’ section. So hen you push the advanced button, you can select IE7.

25. jim burns said on March 18, 2007 at 8:13 am

    I finally got around to reading the source. Nice bug fixes. Some niggling ones remain:

    1) In getFileSize() you have ???:

    wc ‘-c’ “$1″http://projects.ee.bgu.ac.il/

    2) at the end of the kommander install, I got:

    rm: cannot remove `/home/jimb/.ies4linux/tmp/dialog.kmdr’: No such file or directory
    rm: cannot remove `/home/jimb/.ies4linux/tmp/dialog.kmdr2′: No such file or directory

    Maybe use ‘rm -f …’ at end of kommander.sh?

    3) I am also still getting:

    kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Parse error in /home/jimb/.config/menus/applications-merged/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu, line 1, col 1: unexpected end of file

    due to a 0 length .menu file

    4) In ies4linux-2.5beta6/ies4linux, you have the lines:

    elif [ “$PREFERRED_GUI” = “terminal” ]; then
    bash ui/terminal.sh

    but there is no ui/terminal.sh, and you never set PREFERRED_GUI to terminal - planned but unimplemented feature?

    5) In ‘ie6’s Tools -> Internet Options… -> Security -> Custom Level, the choices in the dialog box come up blank. Makes it difficult to use ‘–hack-ie7-proxy-settings’ for relaxing ActiveX options.

    6) Setting your home page in ‘Internet Options’ is useless during the ‘–hack’ since you call ‘install_home_page()’ after the hack in the ie7 install. The simple fix for the end user, if they desire it, is to override the local url variable in function get_start_page in functions.sh, after the if statement that tacks on the ‘firstrun’ option.

    7) The ‘ie7′ bugs remain the same (see http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/40#comment-3387 ), with the addition that, as has been previously reported by others, cookies don’t work, which makes logging in to user accounts impossible, even if https: links worked.

    On the https: front, there is a workaround that works since wine 0.9.27 - if you are using a wine version bottle of ‘win2k’ or ‘winxp’, set the dlloverrides:

    “crypt32″=”builtin,native”
    “wintrust”=”builtin,native”

    This doesn’t work reliably for online banking, but usually works for user account signons, like Yahoo!, so long as you have cookies working. This was tested with ‘ie6′ with a ‘winxp’ bottle, so the cookie problem is restricted to ‘ie7′.

26. jim burns said on March 19, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    Pascal, Vroman - Your posts suggest that you think that ‘–hack-ie7-proxy-settings’ automatically turns on an ie7 install - it doesn’t. You still have to select ie7 in the advanced section of the gui, or add the ‘–beta-install-ie7′ to the command line. (’–install-ie7′ also works.)

    Nb - run the command as ‘DEBUG=true ie7′ to get wine’s error output.

    Quixote - try again. The servers are occasionally overloaded or down. (For me, 8am EST is worst.)

27. quixote said on March 19, 2007 at 4:38 pm

    Jim burns: Oh. That never occurred to me (stupid face here….). Will do.

28. jim burns said on March 20, 2007 at 4:34 pm

    Slopes - I did a simplistic regression test and found out that the “Security -> Custom Level” choices were visible in ies4linux-2.1beta3 and disappeared in ies4linux-2.5beta1. Then I diff-ed ies4linux-$version/winereg/ie6.reg, and what jumped out at me was the section [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings] was largely missing, so I extracted that section, minus [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings\\ZoneMap & Zones], put it in a .reg file and ran it thru ‘regedit’ in my beta6 ie6 install, and my Security options were visible again.

    I then did a fresh install of ie7 in beta6 with the ‘–hack’ so I could set all my ActiveX settings to ‘enable’, and sure enough I got past the ActiveX warnings on movielink (but then ran smack into a cookie warning There may be other registry sections you dropped between 2.1beta3 and 2.5beta1 that may be of interest.

29. Dotan Cohen said on March 21, 2007 at 11:57 am

    Hebrew does work. The installation is in Hebrew, and IE comes out in Hebrew. There are problems typing in Hebrew in IE under wine, but that’s not an IE4Linux problem. Also, I think that I saw on the wine list that someone figured out a solution.

30. slopes said on March 23, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    Some comments:

    1) (not so) Many people are reporting problems with our pygtk installer, specially with the “console” window. So I decided to remove that and use a regular terminal as with Kommander installer. This will also make ies4linux compatible with python 2.3 as someone pointed before.

    2) I’ll investigate these cookies issues in ie7. But as everything about wine+ie7, don’t expect too much

    3) Lately some people had problems when downloading from download.microsoft.com and I’ve no idea why. I don’t know if MS is blocking us or if the site simply goes down sometimes. Anyway, next version will include IE User-Agent to wget downloads and we’ll see if that fixes the problem.

    4) And Jim, thanks for all your very useful comments! Here are answers to some things you said:

    [1] oops seems like an accidental copy/paste when testing hebrew sites

    [2] I’ll fix that

    [3] Do you have any idea why this happens? We use XdgUtils… it should work

    [4] Planned pure terminal gui, like ncurses or something. I don’t know yet if it will be possible

    [5] When I removed those lines from registry I didn’t see this bug. I removed them so IE use default values and that annoying ActiveX Security problem just disappeared. I’ll see what to do with this…
    I’ll make a full comparison with old registries to see what was dropped and see if any of those registries can fix something…

    [6] Good point

    [7] Good tips about dlloverrides. Maybe we can fix https now. For cookies, I’ll try to figure out if we have a solution.

    5) Dotan, if you get a solution to Hebrew, please tell me

    That’s it

31. jim burns said on March 24, 2007 at 11:35 am

    3) I’m sure there is something odd about some lines I added to the Kmenu a long time ago that xdg did not anticipate - I’m sure xdg is still a work in progress. If you could add checks for some common errors, like zero length output files, that would add some peace of mind

    5) Pay particular attention to the sections [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings\\SO & SOIEAK], which seem to have the option definitions, and […\\TemplatePolicies], which seem to have the defaults.

32. when release for ie7 said on March 27, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    rencently, i can’t use ie4linux to install ie at all, hope the next one could resolve it.

33. noskule said on March 28, 2007 at 4:45 am

    like EaStErDoM said. The same with my installation. Just shows the shorthelp, running kubuntu edgy

34. Bruno said on March 28, 2007 at 7:31 am

    Workd just fine for me on Ubuntu Edgy.
    Thanks!

35. jim burns said on March 28, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    when release for ie7, noskule - does it work as ‘ies4linux –no-gui’ ?

36. noskule said on March 30, 2007 at 9:10 am

    hi jim burns, ies4linux –no-gui does the trick, thanks.

37. jim burns said on March 30, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    Noskule - Ok, that means that ies4linux is not detecting the absence of python and kommander properly. Please let us know what distro & version you are using, and the output of the commands ‘python -V’ and ‘kmdr-executor -v’. Then if they both return ‘command not found’ or the like, go and install one or both of pygtk and kommander. Note, pygtk is called python-gtk on SuSE. The pygtk gui should work for python versions 2.4 & 2.5.

38. jim burns said on April 1, 2007 at 5:28 pm

    Slopes - I understand now why some people in this thread are complaining that they are just getting a short help, and no further diagnostics. If the ‘ies4linux’ command can’t find a gui package, it ends up executing:

    warning $MSG_NO_GUI_AVAILABLE
    ./ies4linux –help

    but the actual error message in the lang files is ‘MSG_ERROR_NO_GUI_AVAILABLE’, so the warning is blank. Also, perhaps you should just execute a no gui run is you can’t find a gui.

39. Roky said on April 5, 2007 at 2:46 am

    Hi,

    after latest update from Ubuntu (i remember there was smt with Wine too) i can’t start IE (whatever version) normally. If i run it it crashed my X server, before update everything was working well.

    Any idea? Thank you.

40. Roky said on April 5, 2007 at 2:50 am

    I’ve also tried re-installing the whole thing, but when installer gets to creating wine prefix or smt like that, my desktop crashes.

41. Frankie Robertson said on April 5, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    Bug: When adobe.com is down and flash player is selected the whole thing freezes to the state it has to be core dumped with that ctrl + \ or | thingy.

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