daryl.mu

So I’ve been running a Dell M1330 under Ubuntu now for a few days and it’s sweet No problems found so far and compiz flies along using the Intel X3100 (GM965 chipset). Who needs NVidia huh? Me I guess as I still can’t get Eve Online to play nicely under Ubuntu although it runs sweetly enough in Vista.

Anyway - today found me having to access a test tool that only supports IE, another case of somebody assuming the world revolves around Windows. I’m running Virtualbox with Vista no problems but for some reason the ActiveX control wouldn’t install under VBox so I decided to give IEs4Linux a go.

1. Open a terminal and install wine and cabextract
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract

2. Get the latest version of IEs4Linux
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads

/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

3. Extract and run
tar -xvzf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

cd ies4linux-*

./ies4linux

This will run a cool little app that will download the required packages from Micro$oft. It had a problem installing Flash for me so I unchecked that box but IE installed no probs and left me with an icon on my desktop. The ActiveX control also ran without issues.

4. (Optional) Donate a couple of buck to Sérgio to say thanks!