Greetings, fellow Azerothians!
I have somewhat recently made the switch to Linux (running Arch Linux x86_64 as single OS), and as we all know, while WoW itself runs decent enough, addon management can be a royal pain in the ...
However, I bring tiding of some good news as, through the type of experimentation one would only expect gnomes to pull off, I managed to actually get the Zygor Guides Updater up and running, and I didn't even need Mono to pull it off. For the (hopefully good/clear enough) tutorial to work, you will need to make sure the following packages are installed: wine, winetricks and winegecko might not hurt as well.
On a quick sidenote, if you are running a 64-bit Linux OS, make sure you have installed in a 32-bit wineprefix. On Arch Linux this is done by
This may be different on your distro, so make sure to check the appropriate documentation (most distros have wikis, or you could take a (s)troll on the forums). Afterwards (in case of a fresh prefix), "install" WoW by copying the old installed folder somewhere in the ~/win32/drive_c/ folder (typically i'd use ~/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/ folder, the backslashes are only needed for use in terminals). If you're copying the folder, make sure to check the WoW folder has an Interface/Addons subfolder, if they're not present, make them, the updater needs them to the best of my knowledge.
Now, install Internet Explorer and .NET 3.5 in the same prefix as WoW with winetricks. Following the example of a seperate win32 wineprefix, this is done by:
This will run the installers for Internet Explorer 8, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5, lie by ticking "I have read and agree to the terms in this license" and click forth to install. Note that the .NET 3.5 installer WILL crash, don't worry about this, it's normal and won't interfere with the Zygor Guides Updater, as long as it has installed a little bit before "encountering an unexpected error".
Now for the moment of truth: Download the Zygor Guides client with your favourite Firef... err, web browser (sorry Chromium/Rekonq/WhateverBrowserYouPrefer fans, it was just TOO tempting) and run the file with:
where ~/Downloads/ZygorGuides_Updater.exe is the path to where you downloaded the updater. Run the installer, make sure to say "It's alive!" when you see the client running, enter your login info and the WoW install path (~/win32/drive_c/ is where C:\ is located in the example) in the settings window, and, once logged in, press that download button, close the client and run WoW. In keeping with the seperate wineprefix, that command is:
Depending on your preferences, you can append the -opengl instead of the -d3d flag, but unless you're having an old machine or are experiencing graphical errors, I'd personally recommend the -d3d flag, as there are more graphical options available.
To check for updates:
or
I hope this helps the people running WoW and Zygor Guides on Linux, and feel free to comment and/or correct any typos I made or ask away if you're not sure about something.
I have somewhat recently made the switch to Linux (running Arch Linux x86_64 as single OS), and as we all know, while WoW itself runs decent enough, addon management can be a royal pain in the ...
However, I bring tiding of some good news as, through the type of experimentation one would only expect gnomes to pull off, I managed to actually get the Zygor Guides Updater up and running, and I didn't even need Mono to pull it off. For the (hopefully good/clear enough) tutorial to work, you will need to make sure the following packages are installed: wine, winetricks and winegecko might not hurt as well.
On a quick sidenote, if you are running a 64-bit Linux OS, make sure you have installed in a 32-bit wineprefix. On Arch Linux this is done by
Code:
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winecfg
Now, install Internet Explorer and .NET 3.5 in the same prefix as WoW with winetricks. Following the example of a seperate win32 wineprefix, this is done by:
Code:
env WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winetricks ie8 dotnet35
Now for the moment of truth: Download the Zygor Guides client with your favourite Firef... err, web browser (sorry Chromium/Rekonq/WhateverBrowserYouPrefer fans, it was just TOO tempting) and run the file with:
Code:
env WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine ~/Downloads/ZygorGuides_Updater.exe
Code:
env WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine ~/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/Wow.exe -d3d
To check for updates:
Code:
env WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine ~/Downloads/ZygorGuides_Updater.exe
Code:
env WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine ~/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/Interface/Addons/ZygorGuides_Updater.exe
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