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How to Install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

posted November 27th, 2007 by Wes in

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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