Running World of Warcraft from Ubuntu 8.12

[jllusty]

Hello Ubuntu Forums, I have been working with Linux for around three weeks now and I little familiar with it. However, one particular task still eludes me. . . That task is: Playing World of Warcraft. Please give me detailed instructions if possible.

Computer details:
ATI/AMD graphics card;
32 bit system;
Ubuntu 8.12;

Also: I have successfully installed my graphics card.

[joe12]

hi


- would install ubuntu 10.04 ... i've not head of ubuntu 8:12 do you mean ubuntu 8:10  ??

[Icesnake]

You have two free-of-cost options: wine ("WINdows Emulator"), and virtualbox. I used to run WoW in wine so I know it works. If you choose to run virtualbox, you will need installation media for whatever version of Windows you want to pretend to be running (because you will actually *be* running it), so I would try wine first if I were you.

I'm command-line oriented, so here's the procedure as I would do it; first, open a terminal, then enter each of these lines and follow the prompts:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

At this point you will have wine installed. You should be able to simply install WoW at this point (or, if you already have it installed on a Windows box, copy the World of Warcraft folder over to ~/.wine ) and then run Launcher.exe from the WoW folder.

If you find that doesn't do it, contact me through the wowphiles.com Web site and I will review my installation process and get more detailed notes for you.

[xzcallaway]

There is a growing number of .deb packages available for download which do not require wine at dotdeb.com.