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Frankly speaking I am not a big fan of Internet Explorer but sometime we need to have IE to test certain websites for testing and development purpose. So, here I am going to show how we can install IE in Linux systems. We need to have Wine and Winetricks that allows us to run Internet Explorer. I used VMware with CentOS 6 for installation of Internet Explorer 8 and works perfectly. You can follow my steps below to install the any IE version like 7, 8 or 9 on your Linux systems like RedHat, CentOS and Fedora. Before proceeding for installation I would like to give a little description of Wine and Winetricks below.

Wine is an open source free software application for Linux systems that used to run Windows applications on Linux .

Winetricks is a helper script to download and install various redistributable run time libraries needed to run some programs in Wine. These may include replacements for components of Wine using closed source libraries. It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also lets you install missing DLLs or tweak various Wine settings individually.

Step 1: Downloading and Installing Required Packages

First install the Wine tool by using our Wine installation article. Once you finishes with Wine installation, move further installation steps. (Note : If you already have Wine installed on your Linux systems, you can skip the Wine installation).

Step 1: Downloading and Installing Winetricks

1. Download the Winetricks script with Wget command and Run the winetricks. Follow below installation instructions. (Note : You must run these commands in GUI window).

# wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
# cp winetricks /usr/bin
# chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks
# winetricks corefonts flash

During the installation process you will asked you to install "Adobe Flash". Simply agree and click on OK button.

2. Next download any IE version. Like I have download the IE 8.

# wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/C/0/CC0BD555-33DD-411E-936B-73AC6F95AE11/IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe

3. Start IE 8 installer using Wine.

# wine IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe

4. Once you run above command you will see screenshot of IE 8 installer.



5. Don’t select the Windows security updates option during installation process as it may cause issues later on.



6. Next click on Restart now button to get effects. After rebooting your system, you will see Internet Explorer 8 under Applications –> Wine –> Programs.

7. Finally launch Internet Explorer 8 in Linux.