IE View on Linux

IE View is only supported, built for, and tested under Windows. Our user community has stepped up with suggestions for making it work under various Linux setups.

Jonathan Ernst offers setup notes on running IE from Firefox via WINE:

I reproduced what is made for mozilla on my distribution (gentoo):

put a script in /usr/libexec/iexplore-launcher with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
main() {
    wine "c:\program files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.exe" "$@" &
    return 1;
}

# Call the main sub, which is defined at the top of this script
main "$@"

put a link in /usr/bin that links to the script:

ln -s /usr/libexec/iexplore-launcher /usr/bin/iexplore

set /usr/bin/iexplore in ie view configuration - and everything works !

And Adam Howard notes that this works for him under Crossover Office 3.x / Slackware 10.0:

I had to adjust the line in /usr/libexec/iexplore-launch to this (all on one line):

"/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine" --check --cx-app "C:////Program Files////Internet Explorer////IEXPLORE.EXE" "$@" &

Most recently, David had this to say:

Many of us Linux web designers use IEs4Linux as a convenient way to install and run IE 5.0, 5.5, and IE6 (IE7 support is in progress). One difference is that IEs4Linux doesn't do a full WINE install and configuration, it just does what's needed to run the different IE versions.

I had to modify the iexplore-launcher script by replacing:

 wine "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "$@" &

with the path and executable that IEs4Linux uses to launch IE6:

 /home/[your user id]/bin/ie6 "$@" &