How to Install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

Posted by Wes on November 27, 2007 | 0 comments

This tutorial will show how to install Internet Explorer in Ubuntu step by step.

1. Open /etc/apt/sources.list file.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Uncomment the following lines, which enables the universe repositories:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe 
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe 

3. Add the Wine's repository to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt gutsy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt gutsy main

4. Next update the sources in the packages list, then install Wine and cabextract.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract

5. Now download the Internet Explorer installation file with wget.

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

6. Next untar the downloaded file.

tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

7. Then go into the directory, and run the installation script.

cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

8. Now you can run the Internet Explore anytime with this command:

/root/bin/ie6

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