This information is no longer pertinent. The more recent releases of winex fix these problems.

How to get EQ running under linux

Updated 10/30/02 11:28A

1. Get the current winex source.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login

Just hit enter when it prompts for a password.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co -r winex-2-0-branch wine

This will create a wine directory and download the source.

As of a recent CVS this step no longer applies.

2. Patch the source to fix the weird timing bug.

Grab the patch. sleep.diff (Thanks to Ovek from the Transgaming Everquest Forum)

Apply the patch. Change directory in to the wine directory created by cvs in step 1 ('cd wine'). Run the following command: 'patch -p0 <../sleep.diff'. (This assumes that you downloaded sleep.diff to the directory directly above your wine directory).

3. Build wine.

./configure && make depend && make

4. Install wine.

Change to the root user. Change directory to where ever your wine directory is (ex: 'cd ~loophole/wine'). Install.

'make install'

I think there is a script you can use to replace the binaries in your commercial install... best of both worlds. I haven't jacked with it yet.

5. Ditch the root privileges and Configure wine. You're on your own for this one. The easiest way is to probably install one of the official releases from the transgaming site and cp or symlink the .transgaming directory to the .wine directory.

--- Starting here these instructions are intentionally sketchy. You may have to experiment a fair amount ---

6. Copy EQ from your windows partition.

If you have the commercial distro of winex you can run the installers but they are a little goofy. The free winex will not run them (no installshield support).

7. Patch EQ.

wine everquest

On some installs the patcher is INCREDIBLY slow. It has taken me upwards of a half an hour to patch on my home machine. My machine at work patches just as fast as it did in windows. No idea why.

8. Crash if they've posted a new news.txt.

It may be possible to get the necessary IE widgets working to make this part not crash. I'm looking into it.

9. Run EQ and enjoy.

wine eqgame patchme

10. Subscribe to Transgaming. It's a measly 5 bucks a month and they do good work.

Notes

Be sure to update your winex periodically... they make frequent changes.

cd <your_wine_source_dir> && cvs update