OpenSUSE 12.2 - KDE
Hi there!
For some “sad reasons” I have to use the MS Internet Explorer and I have already tried to get IE’s versions 7, 8 and 9 run with Wine. I used as system default XP as well as Vista. No success!
I have already read that the IE installation on Wine hardly works but perhaps some of you openSUSE guys can help me in this almost hopeless case.
By the way, I don’t want to run Windows, not even on a VM.
What is different from running just IE instead of Windows in a vm? They are practically the same piece of software. I would assume the vm is probably a safer option because it would be more reliably ‘windows’ and more isolated. I have never heard of any success in running IE on Wine.
On 2013-01-26 20:46, nightwishfan wrote:
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> What is different from running just IE instead of Windows in a vm? They
> are practically the same piece of software. I would assume the vm is
> probably a safer option because it would be more reliably ‘windows’ and
> more isolated. I have never heard of any success in running IE on Wine.
I heard several years ago of running IE in Linux with some success. It
might be a very old version, even a manipulated IE. It was in one of the
openSUSE mail lists, perhaps the Spanish one. I had a look on my
archive, but didn’t find it, so long ago.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On Sat 26 Jan 2013 08:43:06 PM CST, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-01-26 20:46, nightwishfan wrote:
>
> What is different from running just IE instead of Windows in a vm?
> They are practically the same piece of software. I would assume the
> vm is probably a safer option because it would be more reliably
> ‘windows’ and more isolated. I have never heard of any success in
> running IE on Wine.
I heard several years ago of running IE in Linux with some success. It
might be a very old version, even a manipulated IE. It was in one of the
openSUSE mail lists, perhaps the Spanish one. I had a look on my
archive, but didn’t find it, so long ago.
Hi
ie4linux… I think.
I installed IE7 with crossover which works, but it did need some
extra’s installed which I’m not sure how it’s done in wine… on
crossover you just dump the in a folder called install…
I don’t have crossover installed at the moment so can’t re-check at
present.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:19:02 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote:
> I installed IE7 with crossover which works, but it did need some extra’s
> installed which I’m not sure how it’s done in wine… on crossover you
> just dump the in a folder called install…
I’d second the idea of using Crossover to set it up - far less painless,
and part of the cost for Crossover goes to support WINE development.
Jim
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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On 01/26/2013 08:26 PM, dank245 wrote:
> For some “sad reasons” I have to use the MS Internet Explorer
some years back i solved such a “sad reason” presented by my local bank
who required me to use IE in order to access their netbank, the way i
solved the sad problems was: Change banks! (and tell them why…today
they allow in chrome, android, linux, mac, etc etc etc…)
ymmv
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dd
If a site is complaining tat you should use IE then you can change “User Agent” string of your browser
If you want to use any add-in / plugin then you need to install IE
You can try something similar to this http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13129/does-ie4linux-work-under-fedora
You can install IE7 or IE8 with winetricks, which is included in the openSUSE Wine packages. However, while basic browsing sort of works with IE7 in Wine (IE8 currently crashes), activex controls don’t. So if your “sad reasons” are a need to access sites that require activex, IE in Wine will not work.
That’s what I did too. The first bank I called replied " All our systems run linux, except the clients, if it doesn’t work like it should, please call and we’ll fix it ". Opened an account, closed the old one, and that was it.
On 2013-01-27 10:32, dd wrote:
> On 01/26/2013 08:26 PM, dank245 wrote:
>> For some “sad reasons” I have to use the MS Internet Explorer
>
> some years back i solved such a “sad reason” presented by my local bank
> who required me to use IE in order to access their netbank, the way i
> solved the sad problems was: Change banks! (and tell them why…today
> they allow in chrome, android, linux, mac, etc etc etc…)
Not always there is an alternative.
Maybe you know the “Securitas Direct” company? It is a home alarm system
that can be accessed remotely, for example to obtain photos and thus
check if all is correct. Some of those features work only with iexplorer
(or via a smartphone, which I don’t have). There are no known
alternatives in the same price bracket.
Interestingly, though, I have reason to believe that internally they use
Linux (if you google “securitas direct and linux” you find the
curriculum vitae of ex-employees that say they worked on certain Linux
based projects that looks suspiciously like what that company must use.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Well, it looks like this is the answer. Thanks, mate…