Just to give you some background on why I started posting here. Recently a fast one was pulled on me, I was made junior linux administrator at work, that with Zero linux experience ect. First thing I was concerned about was the fact that I have to un-install my Windows and install a linux OS.
Now being the hardcore gamer that I am, second concern was, is my world of warcraft going to work and how do I get it on seeing that linux does not work with .exe files. When I asked my senior, the server admin what to do, the only reply I got was..”Google is your friend”. And after browsing through hundreds of pages and chewing my finger nails to the bones, mainly because I had now idea what all this stuff meant I started with my installation.
So 2 months later and after a couple of re-installs I’ve finally got it to work, run smoothly and not giving me any hiccups. So to spare some unlucky guy out there the agony of what I had to go through, here it is a step by step on how to install World of Warcraft on you linux machiene.
Please note though that there is a lot a options ang guidance available on google and this is only to show you how I did my insallation. I am using ubuntu and wine for this installation
First things First.
Installing Wine
Fastest way to do this is to go the following route.
System, administration, synaptic packet manager
In the search bar type wine, and select it underneath for installation proceed with installing wine.
Make sure you have the latest version of wine installed, you can google for how this is done. Basically all you need to do is add a certificate and get a public key, it is going to take you less than 5 min to do.
Installing WOW
First you need to create a directory
eg. mkdir wowinstall
Now we will install World of Warcraft. Get out your cd’s and copy all of the first CD to a directory, after this copy the MPQ’s from the rest of the CD’s to the same directory.
eg. CD1
cp /dev/cdrom/*
eg. Rest of CD’s
cp /dev/cdrom/*.mpq
Now you can start to run the instal
eg.
wine /directory/were/you copied the cd's/installer.exe
Go through the installer, i would suggest taking out all the spaces in the directory where its installed, for easier acces in the future.
Once you have installed WoW, the /World of Warcraft/wtf/Config.wtf file needs to be modified. Add the following lines:
SET gxApi "opengl" SET SoundOutputSystem "1" SET SoundBufferSize "100" SET gxColorBits "24" SET gxDepthBits "24"
Now if you did this right, there should be a icon on your desktop, you can just double click the icon and your wow will launch with wine, dont update your account yet as we first have to install the expansions.
Installing wow Burning Crusade expansion
The steps to install the BC expansion is exactly the same as above.
1. Create folder
2. Copy entire cd one to folder
3. Copy all .mpq files to the folder from the remaining cd’s
4. run the installer
Once again do not update your account as there is still one more expansion to install, Wrath of the Lich King.
Installing wow Wrath of the Lich King expansion
This installation has to happen a bit different than the original World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade installations. The way the DVD is setup is a bit more difficult to copy the files over.
Create a new folder on your desktop for the files I named mine wowlk
Place the Wrath of the Lich King DVD in your DVD drive. When it comes up notice that you cannot just drag and drop all of the files off of the DVD into a new folder on your desktop or anywhere else for that matter. You will receive an error message that will inform you that the DirectX folder cannot be handled because of permissions.
On top of all of this you will notice that there is only one directory (DirectX) and one file (Installer.exe) listed.
Right click the Lich King icon on the desktop (which is the mounted DVD) and select properties. Now click on the volume tab. Make note of the Mount Point of the disk and then type the following command into the terminal window:
sudo umount /media/cdrom0
(if you have to change the /media/cdrom0 to the mount point name that you recorded from the volume tab of the Lich King Properties window.)
the Lich King Icon on the desktop should disappear. From the terminal window now type this command:
sudo mount -t udf -o ro,unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0/
(the /dev/cdrom might be different on your system in which case you will have to learn the device name in order to input the mount point command.)
You should now have an even more intertaining WoW Wrath of the Lich King icon on your desktop.Click on the Lich King icon on the desktop and notice that now you see all of the files on the DVD.Even that this point you will still not be able to drag and drop copy the files you need to your directory.
In the terminal window type the following command:
cd /media/cdrom0
(make sure that you use your mount point if its different from mine.)
this command changes directory to the root of the DVD.
Now type:
sudo cp -R * ~/Desktop/wowlk
(change the name of the directory if it is different then mine.)
This will begin to copy over all of the files that you need. After it is done type the following:
cd ~/Desktop/wowlk
(again adding your directory name if different form mine.)
Then type:
wine Installer.exe
This will being the installation wizard for Wrath of the Lich King. Follow through with the install. Run the program file the icon on the desktop and expect to wait a bit for the new updates to download and install.
And that is it, bellow is a list of problems I picked up during my installation.
You have to make sure your wine is the latest version otherwise your accept button on the EULA agreement does not activate.
Using your synaptic manager install windows fonts other wise you wont be able to see the writing in the EULA agreement or in your wow installation.
Make sure you have the latest screen card drives installed for your screen card, I had a lot of trouble with this as I’m running an ATI card and ATI stopped supporting drivers for linux. This will be best if you google this as the installation for this is quite difficult.
I can also recomend that you visit the official wine website http://www.winehq.org/download/deb here you can also find a heap of info and trouble shooting guides.
Hope this helps
Enjoy.