On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:01, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Angus Lees">
> 
> > I was considering packaging an "iexplore" installer for Debian yesterday.
> > (download the freely available ie*.exe archive on package install and set
> > it up under a wine-using shell wrapper)
> 
> Oooh, you should get in touch with James Gregory, who was doing similar
> stuff for Mandrake RPMs.

So the fabled RPMs (actually spec files so *you* can build RPMs) are
probably almost not entirely unready for human consumption now. I'm
still tinkering with them, and I'll post random updates to the files...
randomly, but they work reasonably well now. Once the RPMs are built,
just install and type "iexplore" as a normal user and great hilarity
will ensue.

I've tested on Mandrake Cooker and RedHat 9.0. The gotcha on RH9 is that
RedHat don't have separate wine and wine-utils packages, so you need to
either modify the files or use --nodeps when installing. And use the
wine packages at http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/.

So, the URL:

    http://www.james.id.au/specfiles/

Mail me with feedback or questions.

James.


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