HOWTO:ies4linux

ies4linux allows you to install Internet Explorer on Linux with very little effort. You can read more about it on http://www.tatanka.com.br

Here's the quick installation guide for Pardus

1. You must have a valid MS Windows license for legality of this installation
2. You need be sure that wine, cabextract and pygtk (need for gui installation) is installed, so check out package-manager and install them if they aren't installed
3. Download ies4linux from here: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/download.html
4. Right click the tar.gz file and select Extract Here from context menu
5. Double click the created directory to open it with konqueror, then press F4 key to open a console in it
6. Type ./ies4linux in console and follow the instructions
7. It will download and install your preferred versions, then put icons on your desktop.

Uninstallation

There is no uninstall option because it is simple: just remove the files.

Usually you have to remove:

• ~/.ies4linux folder
• Executables at ~/bin
• Desktop shortcuts

If you configured different folders, just remove them.

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