Install Internet Explorer in Ubuntu 9.04
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You may want to install Internet Explorer in your Ubuntu Linux because you’re used to use it or some sites don’t show up properly in browsers other than Internet Explorer.And IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Internet Explorer running on Ubuntu Linux,with IEs4Linux you can install IE5.0,IE5.5,IE6.0 in ubuntu 9.04 or any other versions of ubuntu without boring setup processes.
First,you need to make sure you have installed wine and cabextract.
For install wine,please refer to wine install
For install cabextract,run following command in terminal,or use synaptic package manager(System–>Administration–>Synaptic Package Manager)
sudo apt-get install cabextract
Now,download IEs4Linux package,then extract it and click on the file”ie4linux”to run it,you will see:

click OK to start installation,you will see following screen.

click close when it says the installation finish and you’re done.
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Reader Comments
thank u very much…information provided by u regarding installation of ie6 on ubuntu is very good and described so well…i being totally new to ubuntu also installed ie6 correctly..
thanks again
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basheer Reply:
December 10th, 2010 at 1:05 am
hi souri.this is basheer i installed Ie6 as like u.but i did’t get any desktop icon.i can open the internet explorer but it shows only wine website and there is no addressbar
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