got ie 5.5 to work with fedora core 9

god had mercy again. and the poor boy was enlightened by ies4linux http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page. I just followed the instructions for Fedora install. Pretty easy. Did have a glitch here and there with the installer crashing a couple of times. I realize that it was breaking while trying to create the wine profile so I manually ran winecfg once from the wine menu. that still dint work for ie6 install. So next i tried ie 5.5 and yep, that worked good. and there was light!

my company uses outlook for mail and with the deluge of mails i get everyday ( or better put, every second), having the search, select multiple mails facilities that the activex plugin of outlook provides was a key. And this did it.
thanks ies4linux. One day, when i become rich, i will sure donate for you guys. For now an appeal to anyone who reads this page:Please donate.

Fedora 9 Personal Installation Script

This is now the 4th Fedora system I need to setup and I continue to reference the great article at: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#mp3 to get my job done. But why not convert it into a script so that I can avoid the headache if I have to do it a 5th time! And might also come handy to other folks.

Note: All commands here are from the original post (except where specified)
How to use: login as your normal user and open a root shell by doing #su -

#!/bin/sh

# A script to do/install common addons and tweaks. Referenced from http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#mp3 and added onto. Make sure to change the variables below per your environment

#the loginname/user you would use on the linux box
LOGINNAME=pr0t0s

#Setup sudo
echo '${LOGINNAME} ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

#setup rpm, livna
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/*
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

#echo networkwait
echo NETWORKWAIT=1 >> /etc/sysconfig/network

#gcc compat and gcc 3.4
yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296
yum install compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-34-c++

#Install mp3 and media players
#audacious
yum -y install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree*
yum -y install rhythmbox gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg
yum -y install amarok amarok-extras-nonfree amarok-visualisation
yum -y install k3b-extras-nonfree

yum -y install mplayer mplayer-gui gecko-mediaplayer mencoder
yum -y install mplayer mplayer-gui gecko-mediaplayer mencoder

mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/

yum -y install vlc

# True type fonts
rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm

# Flash Support
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum -y install flash-plugin libflashsupport

#Adobe Acrobat Reader
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum -y install AdobeReader_enu

# Shout out Yohoo message
echo " ######################## YOOOHOOOOO=done #####################"

wget the whole sitet

wget --no-parent -cbkr http://www.domain.com/path/to/directory/

Reference from:http://minus.ws/note/?p=48