Friday, October 4, 2013

Install Wine1.7

  1. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
  2. $ sudo apt-get update
  3. $ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Howto from here.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Get Amazon Prime Working on Chromium with Ubuntu 13.04: (Work around)
  1. sudo apt-get install hal
  2. sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe
  3. sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information
  4. /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes
  5. rm -rf ~/.adobe
Got this hack from here

Thursday, July 5, 2012

World of WarCraft and PlayOnLinux

Re-installed Ubuntu and had to re-install World of WarCraft. Wine, Winetricks, and PlayOnLinux all won't install seamlessly for me.

Things needed

Things to do

  1. Start PlayOnLinux
  2. Click add program
  3. Find World of WarCraft
  4. Follow PlayOnLinux install instuctions, find the downloaded client.
  5. Follow World of WarCraft install instructions
  6. Eventually it crashes so close World of WarCraft and PlayOnLinux
  7. Find the PlayOnLinux Virtual drives
  8. Copy World of WarCraft directory from Windows into the World of WarCraft directory in the PlayOnLinux virtual drive.
  9. Start PlayOnLinux
  10. Click add program
  11. Find World of WarCraft
  12. Follow PlayOnLinux install instuctions, find the downloaded client.
  13. Follow World of WarCraft install instructions
  14. Still will probably crash
  15. Needed to go into the PlayOnLinux configuration for World of WarCraft and change the Wine version to 1.4.1
  16. PlayOnLinux will create a link to the Wow.exe. Need to create a new link to the Launcher.exe
  17. Using the launcher.exe finally World of WarCraft will run.

Have had my system hang a couple of times playing so far. Need to look into why.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Ubuntu Unity Alt Problems

Ubuntu Unity would give me problems in World of WarCraft when I pressed alt or other key combinations. I hope this helps

  1. Go to Ubuntu Software Center
  2. Search for and install "gconf-editor"
  3. Run gconf-editor either from Dash Home or the command line
  4. Click on the Apps folder->metacity->general
  5. Click on mouse_button_modifier
  6. Type <Super> instead of <Alt>

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Diablo III on Ubuntu 11.04

Got Diablo III working on my Ubuntu 11.04 box. Not sure if the below is all necessary, but this is what I have workng now.

Things needed

Things to do

  1. Start PlayOnLinux
  2. Click add program
  3. Find Diablo 3
  4. Follow PlayOnLinux install instuctions, find Setup.exe in setup directory copied from Windows.
  5. Follow Diablo III install instructions
  6. Clickng play, and attempting to log on would hang on "Authenticating Credentials."
  7. Close Diablo III
  8. Run command found on PlayOnLinux forum (found here)
    Console:
    echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
  9. Run Diablo III again, shouldn't hang on "Authenticating Credentials."

Have had my system hang a couple of times playing so far. Need to look into why.