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How to install safari under GNU/Linux

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Safari is a web-browser developped by Apple. At this time, it’s only available under Mac OSX and MS Winsows. Here is a short tutorial on how-to install it under GNU/Linux using Wine.

The first step is to setup wine, to do so, tou must run the following command :

winecfg

This opens a configuration window. In the application tab, select Windows XP compatibility mode.

winecfg.pngNext step is to make sure you have Arial & Times_New_Roman fonts installed, Ubuntu you can execute this command (which will install the fonts)

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Then you have to install them into your Winedows directory

cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

You will also need to have MS VC++ runtimes, to install them, you may use winetricks:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
winetricks vcrun2005

Now all you have to do is to setup Safari, previously downloaded via Apple’s Website

wine <command.exe>

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Select Next, Then accept license.
Note : do not install additional software/services as shown below.

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And voila, you now have a perfectly working Safari under linux :

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Safari/Safari.exe

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By Anthony

One Comment

  1. Posted 1 August 2008 at 11:27 | Permalink

    Thank you so much for the tip copy and paste install was pretty nice :)

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