How to Install Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) on Linux

Internet Explorer 8 (also known as IE 8) is the latest but not quite the greatest web browser from Microsoft. It offers several enhancements over its predecessor that includes improvements in RSS, Cascading Style Sheets, and Ajax support. It also has several added features like automatic tab crash recovery, suggested sites, web slices, and accelerators (a form of selection-based search).

 

If you are using Linux and if for some reason you need to install and use Internet Explorer 8, don't worry because it is really quite easy to do so. Using Wine, I've shared with you how I installed and run Safari 4 on Linux. To install IE 8 on Linux, you will also need Wine.

 

Installing Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) on Linux:

 

1. Install Wine and winetricks and setup the following Windows redistributables:

 

corefonts

gdiplus

msls31

msxml3

riched20

riched32

tahoma

 

2. Search and download msctf.dll, msimtf.dll, uxtheme.dll from HERE, and then using the Wine menu, navigate and place the DLLs inside /system32.

 

3. Configure Wine by navigating to Wine --> Configure Wine --> Libraries and set the following DLLs as shown:

 

"browseui="native, builtin"

"crypt32"="native, builtin"

"gdiplus"="native"

"hhctrl.ocx"="native, builtin"

"hlink"="native, builtin"

"iernonce"="native, builtin"

"iexplore.exe"="native, builtin"

"itircl"="native, builtin"

"itss"="native, builtin"

"jscript"="native, builtin"

"mlang"="native, builtin"

"mshtml"="native, builtin"

"msimtf"="native,builtin"

"msxml3"="native,builtin"

"riched20"="native,builtin"

"riched32"="native,builtin"

"secur32"="native, builtin"

"shdoclc"="native, builtin"

"shdocvw"="native, builtin"

"shlwapi"="native, builtin"

"url"="native, builtin"

"urlmon"="native, builtin"

"usp10"="native, builtin"

"uxtheme"="native,builtin"

"wininet"="builtin"

"wintrust"="native, builtin"

"xmllite"="native, builtin"

 

4. Download Internet Explorer 8 from HERE.

 

5. Navigate to where you saved the IE 8 installer and run it using Wine with this command:

 

$ wine IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe

 

6. Install IE 8 as normal, but don't select the Windows security updates option during installation as it may cause issues later on.

 

7. After installation, you will now see Internet Explorer 8 under Wine --> Programs. 

 

Although running IE 8 on Linux is buggy, it renders web pages well. So if you are a web developer, you may find keeping Internet Explorer 8 on Linux handy.

How to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Linux with Wineu

I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.

It is a nerve breaking experience for a Linux new bee to work with open-office for documentation works than their favorite MS Office. New interface and new formats of open office makes them reluctant to take it as a first choice. So this post is for those who are tired of rebooting your system to make small changes in the documentations.

Now you don’t want to reboot your system to get windows™ and MS Office™ to work on your documents. You can do it from any Linux distribution with wine.

1. Install Wine 1.3.35 beta through PPA.

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Code:

sudo apt-get install wine1.3

2. Now start a new wine prefix or rename the hidden folder .wine in your Home directory (if you had Wine installed before).

From winetricks,

Choose "Select the default wineprefix" then "Install a windows DLL or component" and from there install the dotnet20 and msxml6, following the instructions.
Again from "Select the default wineprefix" choose "install a font" and select the corefonts.

From winetricks and "Select the default wineprefix" choose run "winecfg". From there go to tab "Libraries" and click on *msxml6 then "Edit" and choose "Native (windows)".

3. Run the MS Office 2010 Professional x86 installer you have.
I used an .exe file. On Wine website they used an .iso mounted (MS Office Pro Plus x86 2010). Choose to install only Word, Excell and Powerpoint.
I used a valid key and the online activation worked perfectly.

During the installation the installer was hang for a while but finally it completed the installation.

4. On winecfg as instructed above to the tab "Libraries" and from "new override for library" click the small arrow and choose to "Add" riched20 and gdiplus. Then click on both, "Edit" and as above change their override to "Native (windows)".

5. Final steps.
Open Word, Excell and Powerpoint to see if they work. Then go to each one to File-options-Trust Center->Trust Center Settings, lower the security to none in every option and uncheck the Enable Protected View options. Word and Excell are working perfectly, the only problem is with Powerpoint which is not very dependable.

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