"This product requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later."

[critour]

Tried installing a game called FATE, got that error message at the beginning of the Install process. Anybody familiar with that issue/know what the fix is? Another user posted here: https://forum.wildgames.com/showthre...ighlight=Linux that they tried installing IE6 but that didn't fix it.

[dankegel]

See
Bug 6569 - "Fate" refuses to install, claiming it needs IE5 or higher
You can get past the first problem you found
with
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks fakeie6
but the installer uses parts of IE that Wine
doesn't implement yet.

Try installing it under Windows and copying it over, maybe.

[critour]

Thank you. I guess if I'd searched a little more I would have found that - usually I'm good at searching, not that time.

I've just begun fiddling with WINE recently, it's fun when you get something working w/it. I've actually had WINE work BETTER than Vista in some cases.

I ran a handy script which installed IE6 (& 5.5) - but, I guess it doesn't really integrate it w/WINE the way that would make it fix this issue?

If I hadn't gotten any replies about how work around the "won't install w/o IE" issue my next step was going to be to try to install in on a Windows PC then copy the folder over (like you suggested in your reply).

[critour]

Oh, I love that WINE will "automatically" download and install gecko if a program tries to display a web page! I just ran that sh winetricks fakeie6, (which, btw has to be run under your user account, not root, so that it puts the files in the right folder~/.wine/....)

Hmm ~ now there's some other issue with the FATE installer to deal with, I get a web window "Setup FATE" but no buttons to click...

[critour]

I wonder if there's a (not too hard) way to get that IE6 I installed to be what WINE uses when a web page is displayed? (The way it seems to use gecko, now that I clicked OK to install gecko?)

EDIT: Searched, found this, will try:

If you want to run native Internet Explorer instead of the built-in version (which relies on Gecko code):

1) use winecfg and set the following "libraries" to native for default settings:

- iexplore.exe

2) add a new application in the application tab by selecting IEXPLORE.EXE in c:\program files\Internet Explorer\

3) select the newly created application and then click on the libraries tab again and set the following to native:
- shdocvw
- urlmon
- mlang