Installing Internet Explorer on Linux?

Xeratul · 02-24-2017, 10:12 AM

Hello

There are numerous website that require Microsoft Internet Explorer. It happen, sometimes, that Firefox does not work. Only MS... nothing to do about it. Anyhow.

Today on Debian or Ubuntu, this method is outdated.
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Archiv/Internet_Explorer/

How to install IE on Linux?

Thank you

Code:

:~/Downloads/ies4linux-2.99.0.1$ ./ies4linux --no-gui  
IEs4Linux 2 wurde für Wine Version (0.9.x) entwickelt. Sie benutzen anscheinend eine ältere Version. Es wird empfohlen, dass Sie Ihr wine auf die aktuelle Version bringen (Unter: winehq.com).

IEs4Linux will:
  - Die Internet Explorer installieren 6.0
  - IE-Lokalisation benutzen: DE
  - Adobe Flash 9.0 installieren
  - Installieren in das Verzeichnis: /sun/home/prulf/.ies4linux
[ OK ]

Alles Nötige wird heruntergeladen!
  Downloading from microsoft.com:
   0%   SCR56EN.CABCR56EN.CABP.CABBB
  Downloading from macromedia.com:
   |   swflash.cabCannot download flash

szboardstretcher · 02-24-2017, 10:16 AM

Virtual machine is your only way, here is an official VM with IE on it from MS: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-u...dge/tools/vms/

The newer IE/Edge is unable to run on linux even with Wine.

Habitual · 02-24-2017, 11:24 AM

Come to my site on IE6 and you get exactly 1 hit.

273 · 02-24-2017, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

Hello

There are numerous website that require Microsoft Internet Explorer. It happen, sometimes, that Firefox does not work. Only MS... nothing to do about it.

Really? Which ones? Sorry to sound so scheptical but since Google introduced Chrome a few years ago I hav't noticed a single website I can't use.
I know that BlackBerry did make the idiotic decision to use IE only for their BES configuration page years ago and there are some legacy applications out there but I've not heard of a website that requires IE for ages.
I have seen the odd site that's glitchy with Firefox but find Chrom[e|ium] will tend to work on those. I've also seen the odd banking type site which wants Java from Oracle but that's easily solved.

r3sistance · 02-24-2017, 12:14 PM

I'd avoid any site limited to just Internet Explorer, most such sites just aren't secure since the technologies they use from Internet Explorer are Obsolete, unmaintained and often highly out dated. Also sometimes some bad devs think they should limit to a single browser for arbitrary reasons, masquerading the browser as if it were IE works, but any dev that works that way probably doesn't know the first thing about developing an actually secure site... so... yeah... same issue, you should not use any such sites.

DavidMcCann · 02-24-2017, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

There are numerous website that require Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Out of curiosity, can you give us some links? Sometimes I have to change browsers to get at a site, but I've never had one I couldn't use.

Xeratul · 02-24-2017, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

Out of curiosity, can you give us some links? Sometimes I have to change browsers to get at a site, but I've never had one I couldn't use.

It is really surprising, because most informatic's developer are developing on Windows. So, it is very often that MS IE is the only way to use. Check for instance, in hospital, they do use only Windows, because of it stability, and it works everywhere. My physician use a software that works only on Windows. He have a gate to access the national database and it works only on MS IE.

There are many examples.

273 · 02-24-2017, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeratul

It is really surprising, because most informatic's developer are developing on Windows. So, it is very often that MS IE is the only way to use. Check for instance, in hospital, they do use only Windows, because of it stability, and it works everywhere. My physician use a software that works only on Windows. He have a gate to access the national database and it works only on MS IE.

There are many examples.

The examples I know of, similar to the ones yoou describe, are on Intranets where, for whatever reason, internet Explorer was chosen in the past and so it remains and even Edge (or whatever the new MS one is called) doesn't work. Those are moving from XP to 7 and onwards though, in time.

teckk · 02-24-2017, 04:55 PM

Can't you change your user agent to whatever browser you want to be?

#Win IE 11
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

#Win Firefox
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0'

#Win 10 Edge 12
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246

#Linux Chrome 55
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2785.89 Safari/537.36

#Android 6
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 6P Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2526.83 Mobile Safari/537.36

#iphone 6
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B350 Safari/8536.25

etc....

Pearlseattle · 02-24-2017, 05:59 PM

What Xeratul refers to is probably intranet pages as mentioned by 273 and especially 3rd party software.
E.g. in my case we're using Oracle's "Hyperion Financial Management" and that will not even show you some kind of UI if it sniffs anything other than IE - maybe because in the old days IE8 had calls to very specific IE-methods/functions?

Anyhow, what about running IE in the Wine emulator (which is not an emulator...)?

Cheers

273 · 02-24-2017, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Pearlseattle

What Xeratul refers to is probably intranet pages as mentioned by 273 and especially 3rd party software.
E.g. in my case we're using Oracle's "Hyperion Financial Management" and that will not even show you some kind of UI if it sniffs anything other than IE - maybe because in the old days IE8 had calls to very specific IE-methods/functions?

Anyhow, what about running IE in the Wine emulator (which is not an emulator...)?

Cheers

WINE likely will not work. If it is intranet sites you need to see then it's an OS you're told to buy and use. A more forgiving corporation could allow Citrix type virtual desktops for applications which were out of date by over 5 years.

John VV · 02-24-2017, 08:17 PM

you do know that for 99.999% of those " IE6+ " websites you can use " user agent switcher" in firefox and tel it to lie and say you are ie 8 on win8.1 or "edge" on 10 and the site will work

dugan · 02-24-2017, 11:15 PM

If the reason they require IE is because they require either Silverlight or ActiveX, then you have no options.

If it's for any other reason, you just use a user agent switcher.

Xeratul · 02-25-2017, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearlseattle

What Xeratul refers to is probably intranet pages as mentioned by 273 and especially 3rd party software.
E.g. in my case we're using Oracle's "Hyperion Financial Management" and that will not even show you some kind of UI if it sniffs anything other than IE - maybe because in the old days IE8 had calls to very specific IE-methods/functions?

Anyhow, what about running IE in the Wine emulator (which is not an emulator...)?

Cheers

Exaaaaaaaaactly! You got the point, most things as 3rd party are not working on anything else than Windows !!!

Thank you !!!!!

273 · 02-25-2017, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

Exaaaaaaaaactly! You got the point, most things as 3rd party are not working on anything else than Windows !!!

Thank you !!!!!

Then a VM with the copy of Windows your employer is mandated to buy is the best option. Shove Windows in the VM and use anything dodgy there. That or use Citrix but, then, your employer should have made you aware of that already.