Giulio Ferro wrote:
I've managed to install Internet Explorer 6 using wine-sidenet-config,
since
it won't work just by type "wine ie6setup.exe". I had to copy the fonts to
c:\windows\fonts from a working windows installation, otherwise you won't
see the characters.
The problem now is that ie can't reach sites like www.google.com. I've read
that you should install dcom98 before that, but you won't be able to do
that because
this version of wine identifies itself with windows nt.
Any workaround?
Apart from this problem, I'm really puzzled at the poor usability of
this software.
I mean, programs like Internet Explorer should be the first thing that
developers
should make sure to be workable. The fact that just typing "wine
ie6setup.exe" yields
an error gives a really bad impression on this software as a whole. I
know that the
developers aren't working for money, but if they are doing this they
should first
concentrate on making a stable core of basic programs to work (IE,
outlook, office), before
giving thought to other applications.
No offence meant for anybody.
Although I think I cannot complain because wine is free; and moreover I
don't want to offense anybody. I must say that I agree with you about
the unusability of wine. I have tried to install ie6, wordview and
although I see succefull report that these apps should work, it never
works for me (the ie6setup crash, wordview 2003 open a word document but
crash a few second after opening it). There is a commercial version of
wine (crossover http://www.codeweavers.com) where supported applications
reallly works (not every applications works, but if an application is
said to be working, it really works; which is far to be the case for
wine). What I don't understand is that I think that all change made by
codeweavers to the wine libraries are covered by the LGPL licence, so I
ask the question why wine can't just work as good as crossover.
Olive
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