Help ! Need to run IE on 64 bit machine

[Godzilla's Mistress]

Hi Everyone,

I don't know what the hell I am doing and would appreciate some explicit instructions please.

I have fedora 14 installed on a 64 bit laptop and want to run any version of internet explorer so I can access to some websites that won't work in firefox or google chrome.

I just installed wine today by typing "yum install wine", and downloaded IE 8 for 32 bit XP and then when I tried installing it with wine got an error message saying incompatible with 64 bit. I did this by right clicking on the executable and then selected open with Wine.

If possible I'd like two sets of instructions first how to install IE with wine, and second who, what, where, when and how to install and use wine's version of IE.

Thank you.

[James McKenzie]

On 3/5/11 7:21 PM, Godzilla's Mistress wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I don't know what the hell I am doing and would appreciate some explicit instructions please.

I have fedora 14 installed on a 64 bit laptop and want to run any version of internet explorer so I can access to some websites that won't work in firefox or google chrome.

I just installed wine today by typing "yum install wine", and downloaded IE 8 for 32 bit XP and then when I tried installing it with wine got an error message saying incompatible with 64 bit. I did this by right clicking on the executable and then selected open with Wine.

One, please use Winetricks to install ANY version of IE.
Two, IE8 will install in Wine but at last check will not launch.

Suggestion, use IE7 instead. I have not encountered a site that relies
on using IE8, yet. I did have issues with the Web Cache at my work
location, but that is a configuration problem, not an IE problem.

The FAQ contains instructions on how to obtain and use winetricks as
well as other information on using IE under Wine.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

James McKenzie

[Godzilla's Mistress]

I installed winetricks and found the instructions and have pasted them below, but none of it makes sense, there are too many gaps in the information presented for me to connect the dots. Could you tell me what I need to do, or put on the command line?

Thanks
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7.7. How do I install Internet Explorer in Wine?

If you just want an application to think you have IE installed, see My application won't run, and says it needs Internet Explorer above.

The Wine project does not support installing the real Internet Explorer, as it requires a huge number of native DLLs, which is hard to configure.

If you really need the real IE use winetricks. Set your fake Windows version to win2k and then select 'ie6' or 'ie7'. IE installed from winetricks is far from fully functional, but works well enough to, e.g., test web page rendering. Please do not ask the Wine project for help if you run in to problems.

You should put IE in a separate wineprefix, with whatever app really needs it.

You may also try commercial solutions, such as CrossOver and Bordeaux, but if you do so and run into problems, do not seek help on the forum/mailing list or IRC, as third party applications such as these are not supported here.
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[dimesio]

Could you tell me what I need to do, or put on the command line?

winetricks ie7

[Godzilla's Mistress]

I worked out what how and what winetricks is, so I first changed the file to an executable using chmod, then ran

./winetricks ie7

got a 64 bit incompatibility message

and so reread instructions and did

./winetricks win2k then
./winetricks ie7

and still got error message.

Any suggestions for a 64 bit computer please?

Thanks.

[DanKegel]

Install 32 bit wine.
Or, if you happen to have biarch (both 32 and 64 bit) wine, do
rm -rf ~/.wine
export WINEARCH=wine32
sh winetricks ie7

[dimesio]

export WINEARCH=wine32

That should be win32, not wine32.

[Godzilla's Mistress]

Hi,

I get the errors posted below when I follow your instructions and so tried to the install 32 bit in 64 bit fedora instructions, posted below too, but don't know where the configure script would be located to successfully execute the "./configure" command.

Thank you.
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instructions to install 32 bit on 64 machine:

Building Wine on Fedora 14 x86_64

Install the development packages needed to compile Wine as follows:

yum install alsa-lib-devel.i686 alsa-lib-devel audiofile-devel.i686 audiofile-devel cups-devel.i686 cups-devel dbus-devel.i686 dbus-devel esound-devel.i686 esound-devel fontconfig-devel.i686 fontconfig-devel freetype.i686 freetype-devel.i686 freetype-devel giflib-devel.i686 giflib-devel hal-devel.i686 hal-devel lcms-devel.i686 lcms-devel libICE-devel.i686 libICE-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel.i686 libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel.i686 libpng-devel libSM-devel.i686 libSM-devel libusb-devel.i686 libusb-devel libX11-devel.i686 libX11-devel libXau-devel.i686 libXau-devel libXcomposite-devel.i686 libXcomposite-devel libXcursor-devel.i686 libXcursor-devel libXext-devel.i686 libXext-devel libXi-devel.i686 libXi-devel libXinerama-devel.i686 libXinerama-devel libxml2-devel.i686 libxml2-devel libXrandr-devel.i686 libXrandr-devel libXrender-devel.i686 libXrender-devel libxslt-devel.i686 libxslt-devel libXt-devel.i686 libXt-devel libXv-devel.i686 libXv-devel libXxf86vm-devel.i686 libXxf86vm-devel mesa-libGL-devel.i686 mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel.i686 mesa-libGLU-devel ncurses-devel.i686 ncurses-devel openldap-devel.i686 openldap-devel openssl-devel.i686 openssl-devel zlib-devel.i686 pkgconfig sane-backends-devel.i686 sane-backends-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel glibc-devel.i686 prelink fontforge flex bison libstdc++-devel.i686 pulseaudio-libs-devel.i686 gnutls-devel.i686 libgphoto2-devel.i686 openal-soft-devel openal-soft-devel.i686 isdn4k-utils-devel.i686 gsm-devel.i686 samba-winbind libv4l-devel.i686 cups-devel.i686 libtiff-devel.i686 gstreamer-devel.i686 gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.i686 gettext-devel.i686

Run the configure script, compile Wine, and install it as follows:

./configure
make && make install

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errors that occur when follow advise posted:

# sh winetricks ie7
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, err 2
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
Executing wine iexplore -unregserver
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, err 2
Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: iexplore.exe itircl itss jscript mshtml msimtf shdoclc shdocvw shlwapi urlmon xmllite
Executing early_wine regedit c:\winetrickstmp\override-dll.reg
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
Using builtin override for following DLLs: updspapi
Executing early_wine regedit c:\winetrickstmp\override-dll.reg
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
Executing cp -f /root/.cache/winetricks/ie7/winetest.cat /root/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32/catroot/{f750e6c3-38ee-11d1-85e5-00c04fc295ee}/oem0.cat
Working around wine bug 21947
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"
err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, err 2
fixme:clusapi:GetNodeClusterState ((null),0x33ec24) stub!

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[Godzilla's Mistress]

I installed the 64 bit wine version I had then found the page with the biarch software version for Fedora that you mentioned and installed it, then followed the commands that you listed and I now have IE7 up and running.

[Godzilla's Mistress]

that should read UNINSTALL the 64 bit version