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How to install & play World of Warcraft : Ubuntu (5.10 / 6.06.1 / 6.10)

This one is for all you gamers out there. Did you know (I know, you probably did) that World of Warcraft will work on an Ubuntu system? You just need to add a few things to get it going but its really not hard at all. I have been playing for some time now (although I don’t get to as much as I’d sometimes like). Below are instructions for installing and running World of Warcraft on an Ubuntu system. (Thanks goes to this page for original information)

You’ll need to install the latest version of WINE for World of Warcraft to be able to function. You can do that the following ways (depending on your Ubuntu version)

    deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main (Edgy Systems)
    deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main (Dapper Systems)
    deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt breezy main (Breezy Systems)

      After you’ve installed the appropriate line to your repositories you’ll need to run the following two commands:

        sudo aptitude update
        sudo aptitude install wine

        The next step is to copy all files from your World of Warcraft CD’s to a directory on your hard drive (overwrite when prompted). This, of course, will take a few minutes.

        When this is finished run:

        ALT-F2 : wine path/to/warcraft/installation/Install.exe

        (you can also optionally copy the World of Warcraft folder from a Windows installation.)

        You’ve now got World of Warcraft installed and just about ready to play. You’ll want to tweak one more thing before you get going though.

        World of Warcraft seems to work best using OSS audio. To set this you can do the following:

        ALT-F2 : winecfg

        In the resulting menu select “Audio” and then select “OSS driver”

        .. and then one last thing before you get playing. You’ll need to add a few lines to a configuration file and then you should be in business.

        ALT-F2 : gksudo gedit path/to/warcraft/installation/WTF/config.WTF

        add the lines:

        SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
        SET SoundBufferSize "100"
        SET gxApi "OpenGL"

        Happy gaming. Ooh, I nearly forgot. To launch Warcraft you can use the following command or create a launcher with this path:

        wine path/to/warcraft/installation/WoW.exe

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        1. Samos255
          October 18th, 2008 at 10:57 | #1

          deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main (Edgy Systems)
          deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main (Dapper Systems)
          deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt breezy main (Breezy Systems)

          I dont give this to console can be it by this?
          I already have Wine but i get it from synaptic and no from console commands

        2. October 19th, 2008 at 13:33 | #2

          i would like to play the game

        3. Dom
          October 20th, 2008 at 15:36 | #3

          I made it work but no sound and low fps, I guess opengl is causing that.
          There is no way to run it in Direct3D?

        4. opticallaceration
          December 1st, 2008 at 22:19 | #4

          yeah well i’m not done installin and i’m no tech man myself but a good way to find your “path/to/warcraft/installation/destination” is to find your Installer file wherever it may be…. **go to (Places & search files) to find your “Installer file” when you find it right click on it go to properties and under Name it says Type: .. .. . Type is your file destination or your path/to/warcraft/installation .. and no disrespect to the tech support guys i know that shit can be overwhelming after telling the 4th person in one day that you cant use your feet to control the mouse…you just might wanna shoot somebody….n’ways PEACE!!

        5. opticallaceration
          December 1st, 2008 at 22:22 | #5

          oh yeah i meant ( Installer exe. ) file

          NOT your Installer file…

          word!

        6. Teh1337Feet
          December 21st, 2008 at 12:32 | #6

          Or you can just transfer WoW from a computer that already has the client installed and put on your machine. It’ll work fine because its not installed on the registry and go from there.
          Hope that helps all you lazy people :P ,
          Teh1337Feet

        7. joe
          January 10th, 2009 at 19:43 | #7

          my friend has treid installing it but when he gets to about 98 or 99% it says

          the file c:\program files\world of warcraft\data\common.mpq:creature\pitlord\pitlord_mat_a.blp could not be written. if this problem persists, please contact blizzard technical support. (mpqtarget:: dompqcopy)

          does anyone what this means and how to fix it

        8. tecido humano
          January 17th, 2009 at 16:11 | #8

          the graphic “error” here its the only reason i have not to quit windows xp…. if i have the priority ubunto drivers, the game will run at 5fps… with the EnvyNG driver the graphics come all fuzzy … why? is it cause i got an ATI? i read somewhere that ATI is not that good for linux sistems…

          using:
          kubunto
          a9550 ATI with envy drivers

          (also tried wow and ET on ubunto on both ways, with and without envyng and wow was always giving that fuzzy error, and ET was really really crappy…. in kubunto ET is working ok…)

        9. kyle waltman
          January 18th, 2009 at 16:29 | #9

          hope it works

        10. Joshua Holden
          January 21st, 2009 at 05:36 | #10

          @ joe, you probably have a scratched disk, the only reason you would get this error is faulty installation media.

        11. Sanowen
          March 27th, 2009 at 11:00 | #11

          alright folks for some of you i have the fix for the others im still getting the error message once i get past the video but the fix for alot of the problems is on wowwiki.com/troubleshooting_wine i had it up and running perfectly one time and it was only for a day so yeah still working on this will update once i do.

        12. Nihu
          June 4th, 2009 at 09:30 | #12

          I got still that "you may be out of space…"

        13. elias
          June 23rd, 2009 at 13:11 | #13

          I had problems with the audio and WoW started but it was all black so what i did was. i have installed ubuntu on just 15
          gigabit of space and wow is to big for it so what i did to get wow working was using my REAL local hard drive instead of
          copying the wow dics.

          1. in terminal i write : wine /media/disk/program/worldofwarcraft/WoW.exe -opengl
          my folder for wow is now worldofwarcraft becouse when i used spaces ubuntu didnt find it
          2. changed the audio driver as above and it works fine :D try renaming the folder and use the opengl function happy gaming!

        14. October 2nd, 2009 at 13:30 | #14

          Gay post lol! If you really want to play wow that's cool and all. But play in on mac or windows. Linux is a very stable OS. BUT it's not meant for gaming. Anyway…Wine is really sucky. Had alot of issues with it.

          Anyway…if it works…see you on the battlegrounds….

        15. Stephen
          July 20th, 2010 at 02:26 | #15

          I downloaded the 10 day trial for WoW, and have done a bit of online research but still doesn’t work. I have enabled it to ply through wine in properties menu, but when you get that screen with the torch light type deal(just like on normaql windows for Wow), there is a giant black box on the cscreen. occasionally, when starting wow, I lose all controll of the moyse, it doesnt appear and no menu comes up with right click).Another thibg that might help, I used the official website to donload trial, but no icon appeared on desktop. where i ACCESS IT IS ; APPLICATIONS – wINE – BROWSE c DRIVE, THEN “PROGRAM FILES”,{THE FILE ADDRESS IS /archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial> THEN wORLD OF WARCRAFT TRIAL, THEN A BUNCH OF FOLDEERS AND SUCH APPEAR /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Data
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Errors
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Logs
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/WDB
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/WTF
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/BackgroundDownloader.exe
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Battle.net.dll
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/dbghelp.dll
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/DivxDecoder.dll
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/ijl15.dll
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Launcher.exe
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/msvcr80.dll
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/unicows.dll
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/WoW.exe
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/WoW.mfil
          /home/archi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/WowError.exe</home
          HAVE TRIED wOW.EXE AND LAUNCHER.EXE SCREEN COMES UP. i THEN AM ABLE TO CLICK PLAY, WHICH THEN GIVES ME AFOREMENTIONED SCREEN WITH BLACK OX, iT SHOULD BE CHARACTER CREATION BUT
          WITH wOW.EXE , THE BLUE WINE SCREEN COMES UP AND i LOSE THE MOUSE. i GET IT BACK BY HOLDING ECS AND CLICKING THE :"X" BUTTON.
          WITH LAUNCHER EXE THE BLUE WINE WINDOW COMES UP AND THEN AN ERROR MESSAGE ABOUT INVALID PARAMETERS, WHICH APPEARS AGAIN WITHIN 5 SECS, LEAVING TWO OF THE SAME ERROR MESSAGES. WITHIN 10 SECS, THE WOW

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