How to run Safari in Linux using Wine

January 5th, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 11 Comments

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. Currently, Safari is only available for Mac OS and Windows. This how to will help you install Safari in Linux using Wine.

Configuring Wine

After installed Wine, open your terminal window and enter the following command:

winecfg

This will open Wine configuration dialog box. In Applications options tab, set Windows version to “Windows XP”.

In addition, you need some Microsoft TrueType fonts. In Ubuntu, you can run this command:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Now we copy some fonts:
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/

Installing Safari

First, download Safari for Windows.

Then, run with Wine:

wine Safari304BetaSecUpdateSetup.exe

This will start Safari installer.

Click Next.

Accept license agreement, click Next.

Do not install Bonjour and updater.

Click Finish.

Now you can run Safari with command:

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

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11 responses so far ↓

1 Safari unter Ubuntu mit Wine - CoreBlog // Jan 5, 2008 at 7:19 am

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2 root // Feb 2, 2008 at 9:01 pm

Great you have instructions on this, and it’s great that wine runs it, there’s a certain geek factor in getting to work, but what would be the point for ordinary use? It provides nothing that can be handled native. Safari’s technology was originally based on KDE’s Konqueror. It’s not native, and probably runs a bit slower in WINE.

Also Safari itself (on the Macs) has allot of problems with web site compatibility (not talking about ActiveX_ ). Some of the problems are due to lack of standards used by the site, and Safari’s strictness (like Konqueror), but other times it’s just Safari itself.
3 Scott // Feb 6, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Thanks for the easy to follow instructions.

@root
Running Safari on Linux is useful for web developers who want to test in multiple browsers. I can test in Firefox, IE6, IE7, Opera and now Safari.
4 Puneet // Mar 5, 2008 at 7:17 am

Hmm.. I was happy to see this tutorial, but after doing everything as instructed, last command resulted in following on my Fedora 5:
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..
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err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Safari\\SafariTheme.dll”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library SafariTheme.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Safari\\Safari.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Safari\\Safari.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Safari\\Safari.exe”) not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”C:\\Program Files\\Safari\\Safari.exe” failed, status c0000135
kumarp ~ >
5 Matt // Mar 20, 2008 at 6:48 am

Hi there,
thanks for your helpful page.
I’m afraid I got the same error as Puneet when trying to install on Gentoo. I don’t use wine that much, so my wine config would be quite baseline.
I wonder if this is dll problem that you may have solved when installing a previous app .. ?

Cheers,

Matt
6 Rimu Atkinson // Mar 20, 2008 at 6:16 pm

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7 FST777 // Mar 21, 2008 at 2:28 am

@Puneet and @Matt
It is looking for MS VC++ runtime. If you use a clean wine environment and you have winetricks (google it) then do:
winetricks vcrun2005
I did this before installing Safari, but it should also work after installing it.

By the way: shame on Apple. Those libraries should be distributed with the application.
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10 Bruno // Jul 15, 2008 at 6:41 am

Thx for your post! I reaaly need Safari on my Linuxbox. I have made all step-by-step from your manual and it works!
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