Jaunty: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 not installable under WINE

[oss_test_launchpad]

Binary package hint: wine

Anwendungen -> Wine -> Konfiguriere Wine -> Anwendungen:

Configuring "ie6setup.exe" as to be executed in a "Windows XP" environment simulation.

Double clicking on "ie6setup.exe", nothing happens except this error:

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Beim Laden des Archivs ist ein Fehler aufgetreten: (null)

Ausgabe der Befehlszeile:

[/home/nameofuser/Desktop/ie6setup.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/nameofuser/Desktop/ie6setup.exe or /home/nameofuser/Desktop/ie6setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/nameofuser/Desktop/ie6setup.exe.ZIP, period.
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[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Okay, this was partly my error. Double clicking an *.exe seems to automatically start the "Archivmanager". The above mentioned error message is from the "Archivmanager". (Why would anyone would want to by-default open an *.exe file with the archive manager?).

Trying to to start it with WINE, this error message occurs:

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Windows Update Setup:
Es ist bereits eine neuere Version von Internet Explorer auf dem Computer installiert. Setup wird abgebrochen.
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This is probably due to an attempted installation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 under WINE which did not work either (see this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/342271.)

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

This is known upstream, and will likely be fixed by Wine 1.2 (if it isn't already). In the meantime you can use winetricks to install IE 6 into Wine: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Works now -- http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/236 for reference if you wish to install IE