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Trying to figure out whether the Internet Explorer 10 or Internet Explorer 9 can be installed on Ubuntu or not? Has anyone tried it successfully? Can it be installed in the first place?

I have searched this topic on Google, but surprisingly did not find a single thing related to it.

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I might not be the only curious one, but Why? – Grizly Oct 2 '12 at 2:26
Depending on what you need it for, Googles' Chrome-Browsser in conjunction with an extension like "IE Tab" may be of help. – Mrokii Oct 2 '12 at 8:24
Also posted here: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2065413 – vasa1 Oct 3 '12 at 6:16
This is not so relevant to the question, but there used to be Internet Explorer for UNIX up until 2002 (Not so certain about the year). Microsoft removed download link since, and I don't know if it could be downloaded from somewhere. – Milan Todorovic Nov 28 '12 at 12:34
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@Mrokii IE Tab actually uses part of Internet Explorer. Like Internet Explorer, the IE Tab extension for Firefox and Chrome/Chromium only runs on Windows. – Eliah Kagan Jan 28 at 4:12
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It seems that Wine doesn't support it: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=25

I don't know if there is a Linux-Build of IE, but I don't think there is.

If you are a web-developer, you might consider installing windows in parallel. For most other cases where I needed IE, installing Silverlight in Firefox helped. Also, Opera can identify as Internet Explorer.

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Installing Windows in a "Testing" VM is much simpler. If doing development you can then just share the relevant files/port with your host environment to allow you to test things. – jozzas Oct 2 '12 at 6:46
@jozzas, you are totally right, I didn't consider that. – Konstantin Oct 2 '12 at 18:39
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This seems to be a helpful post regarding IE 6, 7 and 8: How to Run Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 in Linux with or without Wine

IE 9 only seems to run through Virtual Box, requiring a full Windows install inside it.

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Please include the necessary details from that link in this answer. – IgnitE Jan 30 at 18:18
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If you have another computer with Win7 Pro or Enterprise (for IE9) or Win8 Enterprise (for IE10) you can publish a remote app using RemoteApp Tool (sites.google.com/site/kimknight/remoteapptool) and then connect to the remote app using FreeRDP (github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/RemoteApp). If you dont know how to do it command line, and are on a debian system, you can install the RemoteApp frontend for FreeRDP called WinConn. You can even set it up to share your home folder as a mounted network location inside the windows remote app.

Or, you could install Windows in a virtual environment and set all the remote apps up and have it running in the background and still connect to the remote apps.

I do this same method for doing my web design with Adobe Master Collection CS6 and testing in IE 10 (though I have yet to develop a site that IE10 doesnt see the same exact way as FireFox or Chrome... Seems like IE is finally compliant). IE9 is the same way. IE8 is a different beast, and unfortunately, there are still a LOT of people using it... But IE8 can be installed with PlayOnLinux

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Its from a Mr bill gates . So usually you shouldn't expect it for linux .

You can go with either wine or playonlinux but some features won't work . so my suggestion is if you are expecting to do much with it then you better to move with virtual box installation .

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Coming from Microsoft means nothing. Remember: Skype is a Microsoft product too, and its available for Linux. Internet Explorer and MS Office are available for Mac since forever. – Martin Oscar Caballero Nov 28 '12 at 13:30
Ok then why he's not given then ? answer me . – Jai Nov 28 '12 at 13:53
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@MartinOscarCaballero Skype is on Linux only because they are not allowed to abandon the other platforms when they bought it (they don't want another anti-trust). And Office is only on Mac because of the sue happy atmosphere around 2000, which resulted in iTunes coming to Windows as well, as a part of a deal. – DoDoGo Jan 17 at 6:48
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Yes it can be installed.. refer the following link for further reference:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingInternetExplorer

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Doesn't answer the question because the OP asked about IE 9/10. This answer shows IE 6 and lower installed. – amc Jan 17 at 7:17

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