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I need to install Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player to check an URL for testing purpose. Could someone post me the exact steps to acheive this task?
I have already tried installing IE in Ubuntu 10.10 and later versions (12.04) with Wine. It works fine. But I don't get success installing Windows Media Player. Hope someone will solve my problem.
It will be great if someone gives me a neat solution for installing IE and WMP in Ubuntu (10.10 or later).
This is a Half-Answer. I say half since you will not be able to visualize the theme of WMP11 but you will be able to play music and videos (Videos in this case only in fullcreen). If this is something you think solves the problem then accept, if not (Most likely will not since it is a weird way of installing it) then feel free to comment on it.
(Tested on my PC a laptop and in a last sorry excuse for PC just to make sure the procedure can repeat itself)
Steps to install Windows Media Player:
Pre-Requesites:
After all that is made (I also have PlayOnLinux installed. I mention it just in case POL installed something in Wine and I did not notice or didn't tell me about it ^^) we can proceed with WMP11:
wine wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe where the downloaded installer is. At this point winecfg should be configure in Windows 2003 mode. You will get the welcome screen, click on validate and wait for it. In Windows 2003 mode it will skip validation and go to the EULA. DO NOT ACCEPT THE EULA YET!.wineserver -k to kill any remaining wine related processes.wmplayer.exe (You can run it from Nautilus). In my case it is in /home/cyrex/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Windows Media Player. Remember to not close winecfg since we are not done yet with it.WMP11 will open but it will be horrible as seen here:
Press Enter 4 or 5 times to accept something that you can not see. I do not remember how many. Just do 5 and that should be enough.
Again, close WMP11. run wineserver -k just to make sure.
Open wmplayer.exe again. This time you should see a little bit more stuff like here:
And one last time, close WMP11. run wineserver -k and change winecfg from Windows 7 to FINALLY Windows XP where it will remain. NOW you can close winecfg.
That is all. The option to run WMP11 can be found in the Open With option when right clicking in Nautilus, as seen here:
You can hear music, add mp3 lists and hear all songs from the list as shown here:
Lastly you CAN see a movie but you need to make it fullscreen to see it. Just press ALT+ENTER for fullscreen. The menu below while fullscreen will not work, instead just right click the video and the context menu should help. As shown here:
I agree with a lot of other people that you can play a lot of formats without Windows Media Player but if you still want it, you can always try downloading PlayOnLinux
This application isn't just for games but also for media, internet and many other applications that run on Windows that you would like to use on Linux. When you want to download it, go here, select Ubuntu and follow the instructions on how to place the repo onto your computer. The installation of PlayOnLinux did take some time so be sure you can leave your computer on for a long period of time.
Once the installation is complete, you will be be able to see PlayOnLinux in the "Games" category. When you execute the application, you will be asked some additional questions to complete the setup of PlayOnLinux. Once complete, you will be able to add Windows Media Player from the INSTALL button. I attached a screenshot to this post to see what the final result should be.
Best Answer
You could also use Wine for running Internet Explorer.
Download and Install WINE (from Ubuntu Software Center).
Download Internet Explorer and save it in your Home directory.
Open a terminal and type:
Internet Explorer should now start.
For Windows Media Player you cannot use WINE as it is rated "Garbage".
VirtualBox or some other Virtual Machine software should do the trick.