problems with 1.2.3 and World of Warcraft

zalaey · Post by **zalaey** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:17 am

i had wow working in a windows directory, i coped it to a linux partition and when i go to use the Repair.exe program htat comes with it, it starts, begins to do a repair then exits saying it does not have write permision for that directory, yet everything in that directory is still (a+rwx) since i copied it from a fat32 partition. also whatever files it had tried to use are now marked as (a-rwx, g+rwx). this happened with the wine that was shipped with debian squeeze (1.0.1) so i removed it and all associate wine librares, manualy installed the whole list of things needed when compiling from source on a debian machine and then compiled from source. notepad, and explorer seem to work fine, i have added any other tool, nor have i installed winetricks.

zalaey · Post by **zalaey** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:19 am

i haven't tried a install from dvds since the computer's dvd drive is now broken and i do not have cd-roms for said game. mounting a remote dvd player worked with limited sucess until the same problem was encountered again

Jim Hall · Post by **Jim Hall** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:04 am

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, zalaey <[email protected]> wrote:

i haven't tried a install from dvds since the computer's dvd drive is now broken and i do not have cd-roms for said game. mounting a remote dvd player worked with limited sucess until the same problem was encountered again

First, make sure you have the latest dev version of Wine (1.3.x). The
only .deb I can find on Wine's download page is for Sid, so you'll
have to compile for Squeeze. There's a link to a list of Recommended
Packages at the bottom of the page.

If you've paid Blizzard for the game (in other words, it's legal), try
a net install from them. That should take care of your CD situation.
Make sure Wine itself works first (including IE6 at minimum). You'll
need IE to accept the EULA"s. Directions for the download are on the
Blizz site.

Jim

hibba · Post by **hibba** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:14 pm

Jim Hall wrote:On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, zalaey <[email protected]> wrote:
i haven't tried a install from dvds since the computer's dvd drive is now broken and i do not have cd-roms for said game. mounting a remote dvd player worked with limited sucess until the same problem was encountered again

First, make sure you have the latest dev version of Wine (1.3.x). The
only .deb I can find on Wine's download page is for Sid, so you'll
have to compile for Squeeze. There's a link to a list of Recommended
Packages at the bottom of the page.

If you've paid Blizzard for the game (in other words, it's legal), try
a net install from them. That should take care of your CD situation.
Make sure Wine itself works first (including IE6 at minimum). You'll
need IE to accept the EULA"s. Directions for the download are on the
Blizz site.

Jim

On a side note, I'm not sure if you need IE6 to install WoW anymore... I thought I read somewhere that they changed it.

Hibba.

Jim Hall · Post by **Jim Hall** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:38 pm

On a side note, I'm not sure if you need IE6 to install WoW anymore... I thought I read somewhere that they changed it.

Hibba.

Could be. If you can't accept the EULA's, then you'll know you need it.

Jim