[SOLVED] World of Warcraft Installer with Wine

[dhammond]

Alright, here goes again with all mention of any "questionable" sites removed for the moderator's pleasure... -

Good Morning, all.

So, yesterday I decided to make the jump to Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex). Backed up all of my music, wiped my hard drive, and started installing the essentials.

Got wine (most current version, I believe - as I've applied all available updates to my box) installed for World of Warcraft, however whenever I get to a point where I have to use the blizzard downloader, it crashes giving an alert box with no text. This has happened in two situations:

a) When I do the install from disk (where you copy all files from the disk to your hard drive and run the installer) I can get to the login screen, but as soon as the game attempts to update, I get the crash

b) When I try to do the full download from the blizzard site I get the crash.

Does anyone have any similar experience using the automated installer/patcher? Your help is highly appreciated.

Thanks

[techieMoe]

Thanks for the edit. Here are a few general WoW in Wine sites that might help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft
Wine - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Howto: WOW with Wine (help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft) - Ubuntu Forums

I did see a few posts about your video configuration sometimes causing it to crash. It's something to look at.

New Wine/WoW crashes after update. - Ubuntu Forums

[coopstah13]

From my experience, the blizzard downloader installer doesn't work with whatever ubuntu has in repository, you need to add the wine-hq repository, there are instructions on their site.

[dhammond]

Thank you very much, both of you. From these posts I've got a list of three things I can try when I get home from work. I'll post what works in case someone else runs into the same problem. Here's what I'm trying:

- Add the missing windows fonts to Ubuntu (this solved a problem installing EVE Online about a year ago on my laptop)
- Add the missing windows .DLL's to wine
- Add the wine hq-repository

[dhammond]

I was able to finish the install and log on this morning. It turns out I had to add the wine hq-repository.

Thank you for your help and ideas