I am trying to get QuoteTracker to work in Kubuntu following instructions of someone on QT forum. He says that I must begin by installing Internet Explorer 6.x. I get message that IE installer has detected a later version of IE and will not install. This is probably because I have win2000 installed in a dual boot and installer is able to look on that partition which is primary partition and finds IE 7. Does anyone have any work arounds or suggestions?
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Re: Wine problem
the downside to ie4linux is that it installs IE to a separate wine setup from the normal one used for programs
See here for some info
wine-doors looks nice, but unfortunately I cannot seem to get it to run in KubuntuComment
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Re: Wine problem
claydoh,
Your link gave very little info on downside of separate wine setup. Are you saying that programs that work with wine and IE 6 installed normally might not work with ies4linux? If so could you suggest a work around to my original problem? I have thought of booting into win2000 and uninstalling IE 7 (tho this might cause other problems/inconveniencies), then installing IE 6 into kubuntu but there may be other alternatives All help much appreciated.Comment
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Re: Wine problem
I run ies4linux and a separate wine setup. While I too would prefer one directory, it does not cause any problem that I can determine. If only all windows apps were are well done as ies4linux.Comment
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Re: Wine problem
with its IE in a different, and separate, wine setup, other apps do not know that the ie4linux setup exists.
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469
list various methods to try installing IE, but , as often is the case with it, different wine versions break in different places, so what works in a forum post or how-to probably won't/maybe won't work in your wine version
another, perhaps easier option is to use vmware or virtualbox to run a windows install and your app that way
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Re: Wine problem
With the amount of time spent discussing it, I would think that by now ahurd would have tried it and could now tell us whether it worked or not. I agree with claydoh that it may not. I give.Comment
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Re: Wine problem
You can try with the Wine Gecko engine, Wine's own ie implementation. To install it, simply type in a terminal:
..and follow the prompt.Code:wine iexplore [url]http://www.winehq.org[/url]
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Re: Wine problem
unfortunately,it seems that quite a few windows apps seem to require IE to be installed, so the gecko engine (which works fairly well for steam for example) is not a solution in this case. Luckily, it may be that you don't need a working IE, just having it installed ,from what I have seen in my searchings on this subject, sometimes is enough.Comment
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