MyDebian Group: Simple Steps To Get MSIE in Debian AMD64

[The original version of this article is located at http://blog.irwan.name/?p=98]

First of all, I know most of us are already familiar with well-known IEs4Linux. This article is mainly dedicated for those who are using Debian Lenny (Debian Testing) on AMD64 architecture due to probable complexity to get Wine up and running.

To get Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), I'm still using IEs4Linux script :)

0. You might think Wine is already in the repository,

meister:~# apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package wine is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package wine has no installation candidate

Hey, there is an error. What the hell happened to Wine package? Until today, Wine package is only available on Debian Sid (Debian Unstable) for AMD64 architecture.

Thanks to Wine Wiki, which provides a tutorial on how to build 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit (x86-64) system.

1. So, get these pre-requisites packages; ia32-libs, libc6-dev-i386, lib32z1-dev

apt-get install ia32-libs libc6-dev-i386 lib32z1-dev

2. Download latest Wine source code.

3. Time to get dirty. We are going to compile and install Wine

irwan@meister:/tmp$ tar xjvf wine-0.9.37.tar.bz2
irwan@meister:/tmp$ cd wine-0.9.37/tools/
irwan@meister:/tmp/wine-0.9.37/tools$ ./wineinstall

It will do the compilation and installation automatically.
You will be asking to give the root password.

4. Time to get MSIE!

Download the IEs4Linux script