WoW - WotLK - install is a hassle :(

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:30 am

Very disappointing on the install so far. The files are on the disk in
some format that is only letting me see two of the 'some number more
than two' files that are there. One of the files I can see is and
Install.exe but it does nothing when double clicked, nothing when I
right click and select 'Open with "Wine Windows Program Loader"'. When I
try to run it from a console I get:
wine: could not load L"D:\\Installer.exe": Module not found

It will not let me cut/paste/copy either of the two files it shows into
my wine directory to try to run them from there. It does not show all of
the necessary files to copy the data from the disk to the hard drive and
run the install from there.

Right now it looks like I will be forced to network a Windows computer,
copy the files to that hard drive, then copy them across the network to
my Linux computer.

This is a huge and frustrating back step for Linux compatibility
compared to the Burning Crusade expansion. When BC can out I came home
from the store, put the disk in, double clicked install and was logged
in and playing less than 20 minutes later. WotLK has so far has been an
hour since I put the disk in and I am no close to playing than I was
before I left for the store. Other disks in this drive and everything
else on my computer work fine so I am assuming this is a problem with
Wrath and not just my machine.

I will continue to look for solutions while the files copy to to and
from a windows machine and will post again if/when I get it running in
case I find anything useful to someone else. I am expecting the game
itself to play fine once it's installed.

Tricia

fndii · Post by **fndii** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:48 am

I have the same problem. The are only 2 files on the disc. They both havr a tag as unreadable.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:08 am

Getting the install started was a hassle but from there it all works:

Putting the files on the hard drive of a networked Windows computer and
running the install from there worked fine - navigating to the directory
on the Windows computer where the files are and running:
wine Install.exe

The install started up with no trouble, all text was easily readable,
all checkboxes worked. The installer connected fine with Firefox to log
into my account and upgrade it with no delays or errors. During the
install the progress bar, changing images and text, and sound all worked
flawlessly.

At the end of the install the standard WoW loader splash screen came up
and it said it was loading a patch but the progress bar for that
download did not move or give me any information. I let it sit a couple
minutes and it told me that a new downloader had finished downloading.
The loader screen was replaced with a Blizzard updater bar the same as
during any patch and it completed with no further input from me. After
two patches I was ready to play.

The game started as normal, played the new intro with no graphics or
sound glitches. After the intro cinematic I had one more patch to
download after log in, again with no trouble. All EULA text and buttons
were clear and easy to read. Game log in and play so far is the same as
I had pre-expansion.

Wine version 1.1.8
Ubuntu Hardy 32 bit, fully updated as of Nov. 12, 2008
Nvidia graphics card, built in sound (Asus mainboard)

Corn Muffin · Post by **Corn Muffin** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:12 am

I get a similar problem although wine attempts to open the Installer.exe file, but it pops up w/ a window saying, "No installer data could be found. If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support.".
When run in the terminal, the same window appears, but it also puts out these errors,

fixme:richedit:IRichEditOle_fnGetClientSite stub 0x14232c0
fixme:ole:OleCreateStaticFromData (not shown), stub!

I searched and similar errors have occured, mainly with the BC release (different hex address though) and the work around seemed to be adding the unhide switch in the /etc/fstab/ for your dvd rom. This did not seem to work for me, but that could be to some other problems I encountered.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Corn Muffin · Post by **Corn Muffin** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:23 am

Since I do not have the ease of networking to a windows box, I'm attempting to make and iso of the dvd and the plan is to mount that and install that way similarly to how I installed the original and BC xpack.

I say attempting b/c I'm still not very good at utilizing linux (or understanding some parts at that), but I found a guide to use the dd command through the terminal on the unmounted dvd. This seems to be creating an image. Will repost later when it's done.

fndii · Post by **fndii** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:36 am

Apparently this helped someone

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=14154

something to do with loging in as root to get permission on the cd.

not sure hot to do it

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:54 am

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:36 AM, fndii <[email protected]> wrote:

Apparently this helped someone

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=14154

something to do with loging in as root to get permission on the cd.

not sure hot to do it

Link is broken.

--
-Austin

Sam Fourman Jr. · Post by **Sam Fourman Jr.** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:59 am

I have the same problem installing the new WoW - WotLK on Gentoo Linux

I am going to try FreeBSD next, I will keep you posted

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks

fndii · Post by **fndii** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:10 am

new link

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=14154

somehting to do with loggin in as root and getting permission on the drive so you can see and copy all of the files

fndii · Post by **fndii** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:41 am

Not sure if it works but i upgraded my account on the website and am ussung the blizzard downloader to install the game / bypassing the DVD reading problem - this is the fix for people who dont own a dvd drive.

loltsy · Post by **loltsy** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:21 am

Unability to read the DVD maybe disapointing but it is not a wine bug/misfeature. If you do not have read permission to the exe you're trying to run you can't really expect wine to be able to do anything about that. Just mount the DVD with unhide and proper mode or uid/gid values for your user/group.

Why this problem didn't exist with burning crusade or original wow is because the file system used on the install media was iso9660 whereas the wotlk dvd seems to be UDF.

Corn Muffin · Post by **Corn Muffin** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:10 am

The .iso method did not work due to permissions, I d/led the installer from the world of warcraft website and that runs fine after changing the folder permissions. I know run into the html not displaying on the EULA agreement, which is a problem I've see covered somewhere before so I think I can finally get this to work.

Hardy Heron
Wine 1.1.7

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:13 am

Not sure if it works but i upgraded my account on the website and am ussung the blizzard downloader to install the game / bypassing the DVD reading problem - this is the fix for people who dont own a dvd drive.

{Been lurking, following the situation with installing World of Warcraft from supplied media}

There is an inovative solution to the problem!

However, the basic problem remains that the DVD media is not readable by an ordinary user with the default settings for the DVD device under Ubuntu. This needs to be addressed by Ubuntu support as there is nothing the Wine team can do until this is corrected/updated.

James McKenzie

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:56 pm

fndii wrote:

Not sure if it works but i upgraded my account on the website and am ussung the blizzard downloader to install the game / bypassing the DVD reading problem - this is the fix for people who dont own a dvd drive.

I had read somewhere that they wouldn't have WotLK up for download right
away so i didn't even try that - glad that info was wrong. I am guess
that will be the easiest way for Linux users to install.

Corn Muffin · Post by **Corn Muffin** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:11 pm

Yes the d/l from the website worked the best, although on the first try the EULA failed to load (some HTML problem). I went looking for an answer to that and when I reloaded it, the problem worked itself out somehow. Installed, works fine, no noticable drop in frame rates although still long load screens. Hope everyone else gets it working also.

Imamale · Post by **Imamale** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:36 pm

ok heres what I did:

Inorder to mount the DVD with all the hidden files shown, I had to first unmount it. In a terminal type

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sudo umount /media/cdrom0/
sudo mount /media/cdrom0/ -o unhide

now you should get a window opening up on your desktop showing you all the hidden files on the DVD. Next I created a new folder on the desktop to which I want to place the files that I am going to copy from the DVD. The folders name is arbitrary 'wowinstall'

your going to need to have root permissions to copy the files from the cd

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sudo cp -r /media/cdrom0/* Desktop/wowinstall

From this point, you should be hearing your DVD drive spool up and then process your command. After a few minutes, all the files should be moved over. It took me two attempts to get all the files from the DVD over onto my HDD.

Next the instructions Im following tell me to browse to the place where the installer is, in mycase its:

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~/Desktop/wowinstall/Installer.exe

from which it tells me to change directory into that folder

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cd Desktop/wowinstall
user@computer:~/Desktop/wowinstall$

from here wine asks me to run

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$wine Installer.exe

which returns

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wine: could not load L"<my path to installer>\\Installer.exe": Module not found

Any suggestions?

mkrista · Post by **mkrista** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:09 pm

Imamale wrote:

ok heres what I did:

Inorder to mount the DVD with all the hidden files shown, I had to first unmount it. In a terminal type

Code:
sudo umount /media/cdrom0/
sudo mount /media/cdrom0/ -o unhide

now you should get a window opening up on your desktop showing you all the hidden files on the DVD. Next I created a new folder on the desktop to which I want to place the files that I am going to copy from the DVD. The folders name is arbitrary 'wowinstall'

your going to need to have root permissions to copy the files from the cd

Code:
sudo cp -r /media/cdrom0/* Desktop/wowinstall

From this point, you should be hearing your DVD drive spool up and then process your command. After a few minutes, all the files should be moved over. It took me two attempts to get all the files from the DVD over onto my HDD.
Next the instructions Im following tell me to browse to the place where the installer is, in mycase its:

Code:
~/Desktop/wowinstall/Installer.exe

from which it tells me to change directory into that folder

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cd Desktop/wowinstall
user@computer:~/Desktop/wowinstall$

I may be wrong but you need to do a chown -R userName:userName
/Desktop/wowinstall

Change username you your own username such as
sudo chown -R lmamale:lmamale /Desktop/wowinstall or sudo chown -R
Tom:Tom /Desktop/wowinstall
what ever your user name is on your system
hope it helps ....I getting ready to give it a try in about 1hr

Mark

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:54 pm

James Mckenzie wrote:

However, the basic problem remains that the DVD media is not readable by an ordinary user with the default settings for the DVD device under Ubuntu. This needs to be addressed by Ubuntu support as there is nothing the Wine team can do until this is corrected/updated.

Yes. I posted on the Ubuntu forums as well. I chose to go ahead and send
to the wine list as I knew we had several WoW players using Wine. Once
the install issue was worked around I thought the information on the
actual install process and game play might be useful to someone.

init6 · Post by **init6** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:21 pm

Using root to copy the dvd to the local HD then chown -R the files to the
intended user worked without a hitch.

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Sam Fourman Jr. · Post by **Sam Fourman Jr.** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:38 pm

Using root to copy the dvd to the local HD then chown -R the files to the
intended user worked without a hitch.

I can verify this method works like a charm in FreeBSD 7.1

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks

ghughes · Post by **ghughes** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:37 pm

Because I'm getting nowhere fast with the Blizzard downloader I'm doing this the long way. I am running into a command line issue when getting to the chown -r step

can someone post the exact command so I can copy and paste it into terminal if my directory structure is: desktop/wowinstall because I have tried it 32 times in multiple incarnations and I'm still getting

"cannot access `/Desktop/wowinstall': No such file or directory"

Sam Fourman Jr. · Post by **Sam Fourman Jr.** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:59 pm

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:37 PM, ghughes <[email protected]> wrote:

Because I'm getting nowhere fast with the Blizzard downloader I'm doing this the long way. I am running into a command line issue when getting to the chown -r step

can someone post the exact command so I can copy and paste it into terminal if my directory structure is: desktop/wowinstall because I have tried it 32 times in multiple incarnations and I'm still getting

"cannot access `/Desktop/wowinstall': No such file or directory"

I used root to copy the dvd to the local disk then I chown -R the
files to my username
then ran setup from the local disk. this worked without any problems at all.

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:14 pm

ghughes wrote:Because I'm getting nowhere fast with the Blizzard downloader I'm doing this the long way. I am running into a command line issue when getting to the chown -r step

can someone post the exact command so I can copy and paste it into terminal if my directory structure is: desktop/wowinstall because I have tried it 32 times in multiple incarnations and I'm still getting

"cannot access `/Desktop/wowinstall': No such file or directory"

You are not entering the right folder's name.
It is not

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/Desktop/wowinstall

but I think

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~/Desktop/wowinstall

The first one tries to find a folder named Desktop on the root of the system, the second one tries to find a folder named Desktop in your home user.

Note that the "Desktop" folder may have different names depending on your distribution and language.

The command look like:

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sudo chown -R username:username ~/Desktop/wowinstall

Replace 'username' by your user name

You can also try to cd in the folder containing the folder wowinstall and running from there :

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sudo chown -R username:username wowinstall

failure · Post by **failure** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:28 am

Imamale wrote:wine: could not load L"<my path to installer>\\Installer.exe": Module not found

Is something with wine 1.1.8 downgrade to 1.1.7 and it will work.

ghughes · Post by **ghughes** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:40 pm

After doing this step:

sudo chown -R geoffrey:geoffrey ~/Desktop/wowinstall

My files where unlocked, I ran the installer and this popped up in a text box:

The File "Localization.xtml" could not be loaded.

mshtml.dll
and
wininet.dll

Are set to (native, built in)

Am I missing something else?