I have been exclusively on Linux for a few years now, and have been playing WOW the whole time. I am currently on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca (3.13.0-37-generic), running KDE and using the latest WINE.
In the past, I would just download the Zygor addon from the Members section, skipping the Zygor Client application. I would unzip the download directly into my WoW-addon's folder and all was well and good for many years.
Then the Zygor Gold Guide comes out, and requires the Zygor Client to update / sync the Auction data. Sad face. The client is so poorly written (I've actually used it on a windows machine) that it has no chance to run under WINE (which is how I run World of Warcraft).
Enter the free Oracle Virtual Machine (VM): I created a windows VM (must have a windows CD/DVD to "install" into the VM), set it up (adding my /Home directory to the shared folders, etc) then while in Virtual Windows, install and run the client.
Problem: The client (remember, poorly-written) cannot handle network paths for the game installation, etc. You can point to your shared /home folder (which appears as a network share in the VM) and it *seems* to like it, but really does not. It creates a series of subfolders on the C: drive in the virtual machine and installs everything there. So instead of remembering "\\VBOXSRV\home\user..." it creates "C:\VBOXSRV\home\user..." with only it's folder nested down inside the warcraft/interface/addon folders. Pro.
However, I was not going to be undone by lazy programming! Using a nice batch-compare utility (I prefer Beyond Compare), I simply compared the Zygor-created folders with the actual wow install folder (addons) and sync'd the data. Worked. I fired up WoW and opened zygor in-game, and scanned the AH, and had the historical data.
This is a total work-around, and it sucks that it requires a Virtual Machine (and windows install media) and a File Syncing program, but that's what it takes currently. I wonder how the Apple folks are doing with all this... I don't expect zygor to take that extra ½ step and make a linux client (I might be the only one who uses their gold guide and runs linux), but it sure would be sweet. Heck, I'd even settle for a better, WINE-friendly windows version that I could run and not get choked up on paths and such.
Hope this helps, should anyone need it.
In the past, I would just download the Zygor addon from the Members section, skipping the Zygor Client application. I would unzip the download directly into my WoW-addon's folder and all was well and good for many years.
Then the Zygor Gold Guide comes out, and requires the Zygor Client to update / sync the Auction data. Sad face. The client is so poorly written (I've actually used it on a windows machine) that it has no chance to run under WINE (which is how I run World of Warcraft).
Enter the free Oracle Virtual Machine (VM): I created a windows VM (must have a windows CD/DVD to "install" into the VM), set it up (adding my /Home directory to the shared folders, etc) then while in Virtual Windows, install and run the client.
Problem: The client (remember, poorly-written) cannot handle network paths for the game installation, etc. You can point to your shared /home folder (which appears as a network share in the VM) and it *seems* to like it, but really does not. It creates a series of subfolders on the C: drive in the virtual machine and installs everything there. So instead of remembering "\\VBOXSRV\home\user..." it creates "C:\VBOXSRV\home\user..." with only it's folder nested down inside the warcraft/interface/addon folders. Pro.
However, I was not going to be undone by lazy programming! Using a nice batch-compare utility (I prefer Beyond Compare), I simply compared the Zygor-created folders with the actual wow install folder (addons) and sync'd the data. Worked. I fired up WoW and opened zygor in-game, and scanned the AH, and had the historical data.
This is a total work-around, and it sucks that it requires a Virtual Machine (and windows install media) and a File Syncing program, but that's what it takes currently. I wonder how the Apple folks are doing with all this... I don't expect zygor to take that extra ½ step and make a linux client (I might be the only one who uses their gold guide and runs linux), but it sure would be sweet. Heck, I'd even settle for a better, WINE-friendly windows version that I could run and not get choked up on paths and such.
Hope this helps, should anyone need it.
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