Rootless Installation

[joe1979]

I know this sounds weird, so I will first explain my situation.

In my office we use Windows 2000 but for internet access there is a virtual Linux O/S which we log on and use Firefox for web access. I personally would like to surf some internet sites which work only in IE. After a little research I found a program to get ie work under linux called ies4linux, and figured out i have to install first wine to get it work. This is the point my problem starts. I don`t have the root password and the network/computer guys are not so eager to install some programs for my personal satisfaction.

I thought there should be a way to change the location of files which need to be extracted in root access requiring folders to somewhere doesn`t require any root permissions and still be able to install and run the application. Something like "install only for this particular user" option in Windows. I`m not sure but I think there should be ways to manipulate source files before configuration and installation so make install doesn`t ask for the root password and the files are installed in the folders I have read, write and execute access.

Does anybody have any idea/advise/lessons learned/solution. Any help is mostly appreciated.

Regards,

[bigtomrodney]

If Wine is installed already you can manually install Internet Explorer as it is only installed in the fake wine drive in the user's home directory. IES4Linux is only a tool to install IE with Wine.

[joe1979]

If Wine is installed already you can manually install Internet Explorer as it is only installed in the fake wine drive in the user's home directory. IES4Linux is only a tool to install IE with Wine.

As you say, this would solve my problem. But no, Wine is not installed...