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Winetricks requests user to download ie6 from third-party source #460

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
1. run 'winetricks ie6'

or

1. open Winetricks
2. select "Choose the default wineprefix"
3. select "Install a Windows DLL or component"
4. select ie6 then click OK

I expected Winetricks to download download the IE6 setup wizard from Microsoft 
[1] and run it.

Instead it told me to "download msie60.exe from 
http://www.oldversion.com/download-Internet-Explorer-6.0.html" (full output 
attached).

I'm using Winetricks 20140302 on Xubuntu 14.04.

I Chinese person user came to #winehq [2] the other day with access issues to 
the third-party source, 'not found' and 'address is invalid'. He said that he 
couldn't get access because of the Internet censorship in China, although 
according to these [3], the site is accessible in China, so he may have had 
unrelated access issues. He ended up using this source: [4] but it is a bit 
risky having to search for other third-party sources, and it's unnecessary to 
when there is a first-party source from Microsoft available.

[1] 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie
6setup.exe
[2] irc://irc.freenode.net/winehq
[3] http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=oldversion.com 
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=software.oldversion.com 
[4] http://www.westernpacificresearch.com/downloads/msie60.exe

Original issue reported on code.google.com by iamreggi...@gmail.com on 1 Jan 2015 at 1:17

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I tried installing 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie
6setup.exe with winetricks and it doesn't seem to work. I'm pretty sure it's 
because it's not the offline-installer(full installer package). When I run it, 
I get an error msg about it being too old(see attached pic), and then when I 
re-run it with the --force option, and click through to install, it fails when 
trying to download the necessary components for install.

$ sha1sum ie6setup.exe 
f3ab61a785eb9611fa583612e83f3b69377f2cef  ie6setup.exe

Maybe there's a link with a newer version?

Seems usable for this link tho, since it has same signature as the original 
winetricks download url: 
http://www.westernpacificresearch.com/downloads/msie60.exe
The only question would be the validity of the download source, and if there 
are any bandwith limitations.

Here's the comparison of the file downloaded from the original winetricks 
source and the new westernpacificresearch.com site: 
$ sha1sum *
8e483db28ff01a7cabd39147ab6c59753ea1f533  msie60.exe
8e483db28ff01a7cabd39147ab6c59753ea1f533  
msie60.exe.saved_from_oldversion.com_url

Original comment by Shannon....@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2015 at 4:04

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I can't find a working download link for the download-only installer. The one I 
provided is the only IE6 download link I could find (aside from security 
updates). There is this http://support.microsoft.com/KB/257249 but the link on 
this page is broken. The article is very old. Maybe Microsoft can be contacted 
about that.

See this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2020599 about your message.

Original comment by iamreggi...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2015 at 1:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
We need the full offline installer. If there's a copy of that on microsoft.com, 
we can change it, but there hasn't been one for years.

Original comment by austinenglish@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 10:24