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Install IE6 using IEs 4 Linux on Ubuntu

June 8, 2008 |

No matter how anal IE6 is, it is still quite an important browser. According to statistics from W3School, by April 2008, there are still about 28.9% of surfers using IE6. So on my Ubuntu, I have no choice but having it installed.

To install IE6 and below, you should first have cabextract and Wine installed, if not, read Install and Configure Wine on Ubuntu first.

After that, you need to install IEs4Linux (IEs 4 Linux), to install IEs4Linux, execute the following command one by one in your terminal:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

The installation failed when I ran the last installer command:
./ies4linux

You may get error message like:

Gtk-ERROR **: file /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.12.0/gtk/gtktextview.c: line 3352 (gtk_text_view_validate_onscreen): assertion failed: (text_view->onscreen_validated)
aborting…
ui/pygtk/python-gtk.sh: line 6: 6431 Aborted (core dumped) python “$IES4LINUX”/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py

There are many ways around:

1. Run ./ies4linux again and this time did not change any options (previously if you checked box to install menu icon and removed desktop icon).

2. Another fix, a rather bizarre one for this problem is to execute the following command a few more times until it’s installed.

./ies4linux

While repeat the installer command above, the error getting farther each time, and finally it completely installed!