ies4linux on Ubuntu Jaunty

Installing ies4linux on Jaunty is not so straight forward. I have only managed to install IE6 and flash so far (IE1 - IE7 would be available in the same package).

First of all, wine and cabextract are needed:
$ sudo apt-get install -y wine cabextract

then download the ies4 linux package:

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

The version check of wine is looking for re/0\.9\.*/ but wine hited version 1.* some weeks ago, this version check doesn't work, I have disabled it since we are using defenately a newer version. Edit «lib/functions.sh» and comment out the line with wine version check (~ line 36):

--- lib/functions.sh-dist 2009-07-17 17:39:55.283279400 +0200
+++ lib/functions.sh 2009-07-17 17:39:59.917574880 +0200
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 # Find where wine is
 function find_wine {
  which wine &> /dev/null || error $MSG_ERROR_INSTALL_WINE
- wine --version 2>&1  | grep -q "0.9." || warning $MSG_WARNING_OLDWINE
+ # wine --version 2>&1  | grep -q "0.9." || warning $MSG_WARNING_OLDWINE
 }
 
 # check for cabextract

Now the installer should work and you can install ies4linux (ie6 + flash + msfonts) to your $HOME directory:

./ies4linux  \
            --basedir ~/ies4linux --bindir ~/bin \
            --no-desktop-icon --install-corefonts --no-gui

The «--help» and «--full-help» command line arguments do not expose all commandline parameters. All options can be found in the ./ies4linux shell script:

# Get command-line options
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 case "$1" in
 --install-ie6 | --install-flash)   shift;;
 --install-ie55)     export INSTALLIE55=1;   shift ;;
 --install-ie5)      export INSTALLIE5=1;    shift ;;
 --install-ie2)      export INSTALLIE2=1;    shift ;;
 --install-ie15)     export INSTALLIE15=1;    shift ;;
 --install-ie1)      export INSTALLIE1=1;    shift ;;

 --install-ie7|--beta-install-ie7) export INSTALLIE7=1;    shift ;;
 --hack-ie7-proxy-settings)        export HACK_IE7_PROXY=1; shift ;;

 --no-ie6)           export INSTALLIE6=0;   shift ;;
 --no-flash)         export INSTALLFLASH=0;  shift ;;
 --no-desktop-icon)  export CREATE_DESKTOP_ICON=0;   shift ;;
 --no-menu-icon)     export CREATE_MENU_ICON=0;   shift ;;
 --install-corefonts) export INSTALLCOREFONTS=1; shift ;;
 
 --basedir)          export BASEDIR="$2";     shift 2 ;;
 --bindir)           export BINDIR="$2";      shift 2 ;;
 --downloaddir)     export DOWNLOADDIR="$2"; changeddownloaddir=1; shift 2 ;;
 --wget-flags)       export WGETFLAGS="$2";   shift 2 ;;
 
 --no-gui)           export IES4LINUX_MODE="automatic"; shift ;;
 --no-color)     export NOCOLOR=1;        shift 1 ;;
 --gui)              export PREFERRED_GUI=$2; shift 2 ;;
 --no-localization)
  eval $(load_variables_file "$IES4LINUX/lang/enUS.sh")
  shift
  ;;
 
 --uninstall)
  uninstall
  exit 0
  ;;
 --locale)
  export CHOOSED_IE6_LOCALE=$(echo "$2" | tr a-z A-Z)
  shift 2
  ;;
 --list-locales)
  echo $IE6_LOCALES | fmt -w 40
  exit 0
  ;;
 --debug)
  export DEBUG=true
  shift
  ;;
 --help | -h)
  sh lib/help.sh
  exit 0
  ;;
 --full-help)
  sh lib/help.sh full
  exit 0
  ;; 
 *)
  echo "Error: unknown option \"$1\""
  if echo "$1" | grep '=' >/dev/null; then
   echo "Options are not GNU-style"
   echo "  i.e. don't use: --option=value"
   echo "     use instead: --option value"
  fi
  echo "run \"./ies4linux --help\" for more info"
  exit 1
  ;;
 esac
done