How to load WoW on Ubuntu Linux 17.10 (installed, work, click) - Computers -PCs, laptops, hardware, software - City-Data Forum

aqualung8705 · 01-01-2018, 02:58 AM

It's your favorite neighborhood pest here.

I've seen demonstrations on YouTube of people playing WoW on Ubuntu Linux. They give directions for both Wine and playonlinux, but neither of them work. they guy who had it on his machine was using an older version of Linux. I'm using 17.10 and I like it. He suggested going to another distro, but I don't want to.

Any suggestions? Should I give it up, or is there another way to do it? Will waiting for 18.04 LTS help at all?

I look forward to your suggestions.

Serious Conversation · 01-01-2018, 09:23 PM

Not sure if this is still a thing, but have you tried WINE?

aqualung8705 · 01-02-2018, 01:27 AM

Yes, I tried them both. Neither of them works. Do you have any suggestions?

hitpausebutton2 · 01-02-2018, 03:25 PM

what error do you get when you try to use WINE?

aqualung8705 · 01-02-2018, 06:25 PM

I have the very basic folder, but I don't think that anything was configured. How do you do that? I've tried looking through https://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages but it doesn't really make that much sense to me.

hitpausebutton2 · 01-02-2018, 06:46 PM

Wine does ok. You just have to launch the program in WINE and it will tell you whats missing lib it needs.

aqualung8705 · 01-03-2018, 02:44 AM

I'm not sure that I've got WINE properly installed. I have all of the files in a folder, but what do I have to click on or install to make it work?

aqualung8705 · 01-04-2018, 06:17 PM

I've also tried Lintrus. That gets me along further, but not all of the way.

Zymer · 01-04-2018, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by aqualung8705

I'm not sure that I've got WINE properly installed. I have all of the files in a folder, but what do I have to click on or install to make it work?

Linux is not DOS 3.3, you can't always just stick files in a folder and expect shtuff to work. It has to be properly installed. Linux programs often have dependencies on other packages/libraries. Have you heard of apt-get? How can you expect to play with Linux if you haven't got even basic search techniques down in order to find information you need? We can't hold your hand, if you want to play with Linux, you have to learn. Put on your google-glasses and go learn, hint: >>WINE UBUNTU<<.

aqualung8705 · 01-05-2018, 02:21 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, Zymer, I'll give it a try. I was able to install the Firestorm client and get Second Life to work. If anyone else uses it, look for MyrddinG.