WoW Install Trouble

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:40 pm

I'm having trouble installing WoW into my computer. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Inspiron E1505, and have Wine 1.1.31 ("Wine 1.2").

I bought the battle chest and so the games are on single DVDs. When I pop the first game's disk in, there is no .exe file there to run, and nothing automatically starts running as I assume it would when I would put it into a Windows machine. In fact, the only files that are there is an OS X.app folder, a trash folder, a .mpq file and a ".VolumeIcon.icns" file.

I tried following the instructions listed in the 3.2 verson page. It says, "You can install World of Warcraft in wine through a variety of methods, such as using the CD or automatic downloader. If you wish, you may simply run it from a Windows partition, it's your choice ultimately." The problem is that I can't even install from the DVD, because it doesn't work and there's no .exe file!

So I could use some advice. I am not a "power user", but am comfortable with running commands in the terminal if I have to, as long as I'm told what they are.

Thanks.

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:46 pm

I'd even be happy with a "newb, look at this here where they talked about this problem last week" response.

Vincent Povirk · Post by **Vincent Povirk** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:03 pm

I'm not sure, but I think you need to mount it with the "unhide" option.

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:22 pm

If you mean have the "Show Hidden Files" option toggled on, it is toggled on... I only see two folders and two files that aren't .exe ones when it is mounted.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:33 pm

On Thursday 01 April 2010 6:40:49 pm Light Engine wrote:

I'm having trouble installing WoW into my computer. I am running Ubuntu
9.10 on a Dell Inspiron E1505, and have Wine 1.1.31 ("Wine 1.2").

I bought the battle chest and so the games are on single DVDs.

If the DVDs are still giving you trouble another option is to log into the
blizzard website and in the "manage account" area and there will be an option
there to download the game client. It will grab the basic game and all of the
expansions you have registered with your account and the patches for each.

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:52 am

Thanks. I'll post again if I have any other issues.

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:34 am

OK, so I got the download installer to work and World of Warcraft has been installed. However, when I go to download/install Burning Crusade, it says, "The disk doesn't have enough free space to install Burning Crusade. (More than 7.4 GB is required, but only 0.0 MB is available.) Please free up space."
This doesn't make sense to me, because my computer says it has over 14 GB left of space. So I'm wondering what the problem really is.

It also says that it can't read the read me.html file, which I told it to ignore, which it did.

Thanks for your help.

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:42 am

It looks like my computer just doesn't have the hardware to run the game. Thanks for your advice.

hellork · Post by **hellork** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 4:12 pm

Some of the installers out there fail at checking disk space. I don't know if it's because they store it in an int or what. They have the same problem on Windows and the workaround is the same. Create some big file to use up a few gigs. That keeps the number of free bytes reported from wrapping around to zero. I wish they would quit using these buggy installers.

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:09 pm

@ Hellork: How do I do this? Make a copy of all of my music or something?

I also have this issue: When I try to run WoW through Wine in the applications tab, I get this:

"Failed to change to directory '/home/david/.wine/dosdevices/c:/World of Warcraft/' (Permission denied)"

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:38 pm

Light Engine wrote:

@ Hellork: How do I do this? Make a copy of all of my music or something?

I also have this issue: When I try to run WoW through Wine in the applications tab, I get this:

"Failed to change to directory '/home/david/.wine/dosdevices/c:/World of Warcraft/' (Permission denied)"

Did you EVER run Wine as sudo or root?

James McKenzie

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:31 am

Well, I got it from the Software Center and it's in my Applications tab, and that's how I access it. Starcraft works fine on it, and so does Age of Empires II. It'd be good to know if there's something special I have to do with Wine to get WoW to function.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:55 am

Light Engine wrote:I'm having trouble installing WoW into my computer. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Inspiron E1505, and have Wine 1.1.31 ("Wine 1.2").
.

Why the old version? The current development release is 1.1.42.

There was a bug involving the WoW launcher changing folder permissions, but that was fixed in 1.1.36.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643

Light Engine · Post by **Light Engine** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:25 pm

I did at one point download the 1.1.42 files, they're sitting in home/(user)/Wine 1.1.42 , in addition to the .wine file which is in home/(user). Not sure if it's "doing anything" though. Only the older version was available in the add/remove programs thing, presumably because it is more stable, and I assumed that is the one that is doing the leg work, hence not mentioning 1.1.42 before. I imagine this probably changes the dynamic of the problem somewhat.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:00 pm

Light Engine wrote:I did at one point download the 1.1.42 files, they're sitting in home/(user)/Wine 1.1.42 , in addition to the .wine file which is in home/(user). Not sure if it's "doing anything" though. Only the older version was available in the add/remove programs thing, presumably because it is more stable, and I assumed that is the one that is doing the leg work, hence not mentioning 1.1.42 before. I imagine this probably changes the dynamic of the problem somewhat.

Sounds like you downloaded a source package. You can't just stick a source file in ~/.wine; you need to compile it and install it. Installing a distro package is easier, and Ubuntu definitely has updated ones. You probably have to add another repository; ask on the Ubuntu forum which one.