Internet Explorer on Linux

Sergio Lopes has created a very good script to install Internet Explorer on Linux for use with WINE. You can visit the IEs4Linux site at http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page.

After installing the three versions of IE that are available, I was left with the task of creating menu items for each launcher script, which I didn’t really want to do. Instead I wrote a launcher that lets me select which version of IE I want to run. I also generated usable icons from Sergio’s SVG image.

This trick requires Xdialog, and you will need to modify this script to work for your installation of IEs4Linux by setting the base variable. You can download the script from ielaunch or copy/paste it from here.

#!/bin/bash
base='/path/to/ies4linux/scripts/'
launch=$(Xdialog --stdout --title 'IEs4Linux Launcher' --no-tags --menu 'Select IE Version' \\
         10 40 15 '1' 'IE 5.01' '2' 'IE 5.5' '3' 'IE 6.0 SP2')
case $launch in
1)
   $base'ie5'
   ;;
2)
   $base'ie55'
   ;;
3)
   $base'ie6'
   ;;
esac

Now, just add a menu item pointing to the script (make sure the script is chmod +x!). You can use an icon from the icon pack. If all went well, you will see this dialog when you click your menu item -