Finally... IE on Linux / Ubuntu...

Great..... It works... :)

Initially, when I needed to run a few IE specific sites on my Ubuntu installation, I spent quite some time searching around google, and some more prominent linux sites... But I did not hit success...

Today however, my search bore fruit... I found IEs4Linux project, and its so damned simple.

I am still running Hardy (not Interpid) on my desktop, and wine (the default). I picked up the instructions, kind of updated them myself to work in my hardy, and bingo.. it installed and works...absolutely.

Here's what I did -

1. Found this page for installation instructions on Ubuntu :
   http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation:Ubuntu
   
   
2. Run the following commands -

3. sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install wine cabextract

4. And then run this -
   

5. wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
   tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
   cd ies4linux-*
   ./ies4linux
   

6. The last one would open a dialog box and would ask you basic questions about what version do you want, choose what u like and bingo.. it would start installation...
   
   
7. Within minutes, it automatically downloads some files from here and there, and is done.
   
   
8. It just works...