Spill the Wine, take that girl

First of all, I love that song.

Second of all, the Wine emulation program for Linux, which enables users to run Windows apps in Linux without needing Windows at all, is notoriously difficult to install. In fact, there's a whole company -- and resulting software package -- called Codeweavers to make to process doable for those who aren't full-time geeks.

Now I need to run Internet Explorer for one task -- yes, it's a freakin' pain in the ass -- and have had no success in installing Wine on any Linux distribution.

But I came across IEs4Linux, which claims to offer a way to get Wine and IE into your Linux distribution with minimal effort.

It took a small bit of doing, about 5 minutes work -- and you have to open a terminal window.

But it works.

I installed in Xubuntu, using the instructions herein.

In a few minutes, I had a working IE 6 window on the screen. So if you absolutely, positively need to use IE, want to run Linux and can't seem to get Wine working otherwise, I heartily recommend this method -- again, it worked for me.