IE for Solaris, Part 2

I tried installing Internet Explorer for Solaris while home for Christmas. The installer, apparently, checks the OS release and doesn’t seem to understand “5.10″ (or something along those lines). I remember someone using DTrace to intercept the syscall to uname(3) in the Oracle installer (when trying to install it on OpenSolaris) and changed the release value, does anyone have that page bookmarked by any chance (I’ve googled for it, and can’t find it).

1 Response to “IE for Solaris, Part 2”


  • You might want to give Wine a try. I just installed IE6 in Debian using Winetools. Winetools automatically downloaded and installed IE6, as well as some other Windows apps. If it works on Solaris, that would make it much easier to get Wine configured and things installed.

    I don’t think there is an official Wine for Solaris binary, however, I found someone who is maintaining one. The Solaris Wine Cellar

    Let me know if you get it working.

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