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Posted: June 23 2007,15:06 QUOTE

This is an odd mix of issues to therefore I am posting here.

I would like to install ies4linux
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

The reason for my doing this is that a few sites require Internet Explorer 6 or higher or I can't even log in. It works great in all of the ubuntu versions.

The ies4linux installer calls for cabextract so I did the following:
I have dsl-dpkg enabled, I did:
apt-get update.  
apt-get install cabextract

All went well.  

When I do a ./ies4linux in the directory for the installer, it still calls for cabextract.  Perhaps a more recent version is needed.

There are different directions for "debian" and I tried those by adding a more recent repository to my apt sources list, but there are dependency issues and I can't seem to work around them.
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Posted: June 23 2007,15:18 QUOTE

Which dependencies are unmet? DSL is friendly-ish through Debian Woody. Beyond that, you're going to have headaches and frustration.

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Posted: June 23 2007,15:59 QUOTE

Based on the debian instructions, I need to install It want's to install libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 cabextract, but it wants newer versions of dependencies for first two things that are already installed, so I don't think I am going to be able to install this based on your question.

Thanks for your help though.  Some people sometimes have found "easy" ways of doing things but I don't think this issue is one of those easy things.  I have tried a "raw" install of ie6 using wine, but it just can't do it.

Synaptic would be nice... or even aptitude.  Those frontends sometimes help out with such things.
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Posted: June 23 2007,16:06 QUOTE

Which version of DSL are you using? Has synaptic been deprecated in recent versions?

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Posted: June 23 2007,16:35 QUOTE

I am using 3.3.  I thought I had remember seeing "synaptic" somewhere on some previous version, or as an installable app, but I can't seem to find it.  

I don't use dsl a lot.  I have a multiboot with grub: kubuntu feisty, win xp, dsl as options.  I use it on the weekends when I don't want my desktop running the hard drive (kubuntu doesn't suspend properly and every half minute or so, I see the hd light go on, even with manual hdparm settings), and don't want to use windows XP (why? - just because :;):   The toram hard drive install of DSL just hangs out in ram and uses energy minimally.  My CPU never seems to get warm: a good indicator of low power consumption.  And it just just really fast on my athalon XP 3200+ with 2 GB ram.

So if I want to use internet explorer, I can just reboot to some other os.  Sometimes I think I just do these things for the sake of solving a puzzle.  

Know anyone who has IE6 successfully running on DSL with wine?
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