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Old 12-27-2005, 01:55 PM   #1
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World of Warcraft on linux


What are my options of installing World of Warcraft on linux without paying for it a program to do it?
 
Old 12-27-2005, 02:28 PM   #2
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Not bad. You could try it via Wine or get the CVS version of Transgaming.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...hp?storyid=707
http://www.blogsofwar.com/world_of_warcraft_on_linux

There are also online petitions to request a Linux port - I haven't linked them here because, frankly, there's little point.
 
Old 12-27-2005, 02:30 PM   #3
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I've already signed the petition. =D I'm installing WINE now.
 
Old 12-27-2005, 02:34 PM   #4
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Okay, I got an error when I did "apt-get --build source wine":

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/victor/wine-0.0.20050725/include'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/victor/wine-0.0.20050725/fonts'
fontforge -script ../fonts/genttf.ff wine_courier.sfd wine_courier.
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by George Williams.
Executable based on sources from 17:48 11-Sep-2005.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="../libs/unicode:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ../tools/sfnt2fnt wine_courier. 13 1252 96 128 8
Can't open face
../tools/sfnt2fnt foo.ttf ppem enc dpi def_char avg_width
../tools/fnt2fon wine_courier-1252-96-13.fnt wine_coure.fon
Can't open wine_courier-1252-96-13.fnt
../tools/fnt2fon fntfiles output.fon
make[2]: *** [wine_coure.fon] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/victor/wine-0.0.20050725/fonts'
make[1]: *** [fonts] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/victor/wine-0.0.20050725'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
Build command 'cd wine-0.0.20050725 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
 
Old 12-27-2005, 06:52 PM   #5
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Why don't you just apt-get install wine ?
 
  


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