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justinsn95
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IE8 for wine?

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Hi all. I am running Ubuntu 10.04. There are a few sites that I need to view, that require Internet Explorer. For some reason that I'm sure I have a strong dislike for. So, I downloaded IE8 for windows XP, from the internet. And, I installed it with wine. But for some reason, when I go to Applications>Wine>Programs, it just isn't listed. I can't open it if I can't get to it, right?

Well, to see if it actually installed successfully, I went to Applications>Wine>Uninstall Wine Software. And it listed Internet Explorer as something that I could uninstall. It even had the little IE logo and everything.

So how can I get it to actually launch IE8? Anyone have any idea?
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Re: IE8 for wine?

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justinsn95 wrote: So how can I get it to actually launch IE8? Anyone have any idea?
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IE8 doesn't work in Wine. IE7 is buggy but somewhat functional. Install it with winetricks.

You don't need menu items to run anything in Wine. You can run things from a terminal.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df ... b8edc21619
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Post by justinsn95 »

Ok, so let me get this straight. When I install new windows programs with wine, they may not always appear in Applications>Wine>Programs. But that's ok cause all I need to do is go into the artificial C drive, located in Applications>Wine>Browse C drive. Then simply find the launcher .exe of whatever program I am trying to run, and right click it and tell it to run it with wine. Does that sound about right?
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