Unable to install Internet Explorer 11

Question

When I am try to install Internet Explorer using the command sudo apt-get install wine cabextract) my VLC player gets unpacked/uninstalled/removed.

Please provide me with a suitable command to install Internet Explorer.

Solution

The host of that file at http://www.tatanka.com.br now advises

"The new Internet Explorer and Edge can not be run on Wine anymore"

Instead, they recommend

"So Microsoft has its own VMs for this:"

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

"Virtual Box, vagrant, VMWare and others are supported."

Comments

[RiaanV]

could I just ask why would you want to run IE11 on a Linux Machine?

[EODCraft Staff]

Or on a Windows Machine for that matter!

[Hearen]

@RiaanV I for now do need to run IE 11 in Ubuntu 16.04 for compatibility test. So I suppose this is the try instead of directly trying to set up a VM in ubuntu. Using Wine and PlayOnLinux can be helpful but there is no IE 11 as far as I know.

[wjandrea]

I don't think the VLC problem is related to installing wine and cabextract. Seems more likely your VLC package is misconfigured or marked for removal, or your packaging system is broken. In order to tell, please post the full output of that apt-get command.

[Teo Carter]

wine is not installing IE 11 as there ins't one yet. The OP specifically asked for IE11.

[wjandrea]

OP specifically said they're having problems with the first step, sudo apt-get install wine cabextract. Also this seems to be copied straight from the Wiki. Please don't plagiarize, instead cite your sources and put quoted material in a quote block.