How to Install Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera on Ubuntu
If you are a simple Ubuntu user who just want to surf the net and check email, then the default Firefox browser (or Konqueror for Kubuntu) should be sufficient to fulfill your needs. However, if you are a Web designer/developer, who at the same time also a Ubuntu lover, then you will find that you need more than just Firefox on your desktop.
Since Firefox, IE 6, 7, Safari, Opera all have different rendering engines, web designers/developers will have to test their projects on various browsers to see the rendering effects for each browser. While Windows users can simply download the windows version of the various browsers and install it in their platform, it is not so straightforward in Ubuntu, since there is no Linux version of Internet Explorer and Safari.
Luckily, there is Wine where you can use to install Windows software on Linux.
Install Wine
In your terminal,
sudo apt-get install wine
Next, download the Microsoft Core Fonts
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Copy the fonts to Wine directory
cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
Configure Wine
In your terminal, type
winecfg
or Select Application -> Wine -> Configure Wine
At the bottom of the Application tab, there is a dropdown box. Select Window XP. Press Ok.
Installing Safari
Download the Safari For Windows from http://www.apple.com/safari/download/.
Right click on the SafariSetup.exe icon and choose “Open with Wine Windows Emulator“. This will load up the installer.
Click “Next” to proceed with the installation. When it arrives at the page that asks you if you want to install Bonjour and Software update, uncheck the selection.
Click “Install“.
Launching Safari
Most of the time, Wine will create a desktop icon for its installed application, in this case, Safari. Click on the icon to launch Safari. If it doesn’t create the icon, you still can launch it via Application->Wine->Programs->Safari
If you have the title bar as shown in the picture below, don’t worry, that is normal.
To access flash content with Safari, you will need to install the flash player as well.
Download the flash player from Adobe (Remember to download the Windows version, not the LInux version)
Right click on the downloaded file and select “Open with Wine Windows Emulator“.
Done. Now you should be able to access flash site (like youtube.com) with Safari.
(watching Youtube video on safari)
Installing IE 6
The software ies4linux has made it very easy to install Internet Explorer 5 and 6 on your Ubuntu desktop.
In your terminal,
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux
Just click “OK” and the program will install IE on your Ubuntu desktop.
Installing IE7
Currently, there are no good solution to install IE 7 on Ubuntu. The best alternative is to use ies4linux to install IE 7 render engine on IE6 interface.
Click on “Advanced” on the ies4linux window. At the bottom, there is a 7.0 box. Check it and press “OK”. Proceed with the standard installation of ies4linux.
Installing Opera
Installing Opera is the easiest since it has a Linux version. Either in your terminal, type
sudo apt-get install opera
or go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager, select Opera and click “Apply“.
Done.
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I can’t seem to finish the IE 6.0 installation on my ubuntu.
IEs4Linux will:
– Install Internet Explorers: 6.0
– Using IE locale: EN-US
– Install everything at: /home/admin/.ies4linux
[ OK ]
Downloading everything we need
Downloading from microsoft.com:
DCOM98.EXE
mfc42.cab
249973USA8.exe
ADVAUTH.CAB
CRLUPD.CAB
HHUPD.CAB
IEDOM.CAB
IE_EXTRA.CAB
IE_S1.CAB
IE_S2.CAB
It stops there, it doesnt start downloading a new file.
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Eh. It’s not working. I must be doing something wrong. :/
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@Tug: Which part is not working? Safari or Internet Explorer?
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Worked perfectly (The Interner Explorer one), thanks!.
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Hey, Safari’s installation is not working.
The fonts copying is giving me an error (that the target directory does not exist).
Also, when I run safari it is extremely slow, and then it crashes. do you know what the problem might be ?
Thanks for your reply,
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julian Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 11:37 pm
copy the fonts manually. i mean using ubuntu explorer
from: source dir
to target dir. in this case wine/ prog/
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@cyril8727: The target directory should be there if you have installed wine and run winecfg. If not, you have to check your wine installation again.
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/home/ivan/ies4linux-2.99.0.1/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py:268: GtkWarning: gtk_text_layout_real_invalidate: assertion `layout->wrap_loop_count == 0′ failed
self.textbuffer.insert_with_tags(self.textbuffer.get_end_iter(), line, tag)
/home/ivan/ies4linux-2.99.0.1/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py:264: GtkWarning: gtk_text_layout_real_invalidate: assertion `layout->wrap_loop_count == 0′ failed
self.textbuffer.delete(it, self.textbuffer.get_end_iter())
**
Gtk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.14.4/gtk/gtktextlayout.c:2316:IA__gtk_text_layout_get_line_display: code should not be reached
ui/pygtk/python-gtk.sh: line 6: 16846 Aborted python “$IES4LINUX”/ui/pygtk/ies4linux-gtk.py
ivan@ivan-desktop:~/ies4linux-2.99.0.1$
ivan@ivan-desktop:~/ies4linux-2.99.0.1$
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Ivan, try this instead: In the terminal, go to where you untared the ies4linux package. Run ies4linux with the following command:
./ies4linux –no-gui –beta-install-ie7
Please note that since installing IE7 on Linux is a ‘dirty hack’, it has some handicaps, like missing dialogs such as javascript:alert, Find (Ctrl+F) or Internet Options. If you need the whole help, use:
./ies4linux –full-help
Find more help on the IE7 install here:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Beta
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For the guy having trouble copying fonts, the above command is incorrect. you should change ‘fonts’ to read ‘Fonts’… then it should work :)
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watch the spelling on the font business
Currently, Ubuntu 9.04 is:
/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts
Note: CAPITAL F in Fonts. don’t copy/paste the above without fixing.
Also, you may need to sudo chmod 777 * and
sudo chown username:username (or user:group) *
after you cd ~/.wine/…./Fonts folder
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i install wine & xp supported softwares there not runing pls help.i like this its best idea.
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i install wine & windows xp supported software but there not running.Pls help i like this its best idea …,
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