Running Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), but nothing happens

[kenninaz]

Hi,

I am currently running Ubuntu 8.04 with wine 1.0 (upgraded thru update manager).

I previously installed wine & winetools using instructions from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=149585.

However, when I try to run IE6, this is what the terminal outputs:
kenninaz@kenninaz-desktop:~$ wine /home/kenninaz/.wine/c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE
fixmeStopWatchMode () stub!
fixme:rpc:alloc_serverprotoseq protseq "mswmsg" not supported
err:shdocvw:register_class_object failed to register object 800706a7
fixme:rpc:I_RpcServerStopListening (): stub
fixme:rpc:I_RpcWindowProc (0x10024,00000002,00000000,00000000): stub
fixme:rpc:I_RpcWindowProc (0x10024,00000082,00000000,00000000): stub

Any ideas why? I have tried the instructions from http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem too but to no avail.

If I just type "ie6" in the terminal, the response below is what I get and then nothing happens:
kenninaz@kenninaz-desktop:~$ ie6
detecting Wine version... done.
Drive C: is /home/kenninaz/.wine/drive_c
Wine 0
wine is executed as wine
Parameters are

So far, other exe works.... my uTorrent is running perfectly.

Can anyone help? I really need IE to run.

[Jim]

I previously installed wine & winetools using instructions from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=149585.

However, when I try to run IE6,

Winetools is obsolete and unmaintained (See http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications ).

Microsoft Internet Explorer is not supported here. You can try IEs4Linux, but realize that such things are not supported here and you'll need to get support from the IEs4Linux folks.

There are a lot of broken, unmaintained, tutorials out there that should be deleted. I'd advise checking dates that a guide was published. 2006 is a long time ago for most active software projects.