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[ironail]

Greeting to fellow Ubuntu users. i have just installed both 5.04 and 5.10 versions so im not sure witch part of the forum should i post in. both of them installed without a glitch. i have heard that you can install and play windows games using ubuntu. i have installed wine using the synaptic package manager. now how do i use wine? they said you have to install winetools also for easy configuration of wine. but when i use synaptic to install winetools its says has a 404 error and i cannot install it. is there a way to use wine without winetools? i have seached for different winetools and found some versions (2.1.1 is what the synaptic is trying to install, found a 2.1.2 version). how to i install this new version? thanks in advance for the help.

[nocturn]

Greeting to fellow Ubuntu users. i have just installed both 5.04 and 5.10 versions so im not sure witch part of the forum should i post in. both of them installed without a glitch. i have heard that you can install and play windows games using ubuntu. i have installed wine using the synaptic package manager. now how do i use wine? they said you have to install winetools also for easy configuration of wine. but when i use synaptic to install winetools its says has a 404 error and i cannot install it. is there a way to use wine without winetools? i have seached for different winetools and found some versions (2.1.1 is what the synaptic is trying to install, found a 2.1.2 version). how to i install this new version? thanks in advance for the help.

For games, the best way is to use Cedega (formerly WineX), which is a modified version of Wine to include basic DirectX support.
Cedega is paid for software though.

[ironail]

i would like to try the free wine first before trying other alternatives. thank you.

[Ibuntu_52]

You should try the wine cvs beta.It's free and it supports directx,cedega's main advantage over wine.

You can use this guide :http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=29996&highlight=wine+cvs

I know it may seem like a lot of work but you can just copy the command line stuff and paste it into terminal.

[ironail]

thanks i got the cvs+wine thing working and have installed some windows games. i have no-cd cracks to games like warcraft3 but i dont know how to access the fake windows directory so i can copy over the old .exe. how do i do it?

[seethru]

the windows drive is located (or should be) in ~/.wine/

edit: post what games you get working, I currently use cedega, but if winecvs will play the games I play with cedega then I might make the switch.

[ironail]

how can i access that folder using the file browser or the commands/syntax for copying from one folder to another in the terminal.

i have installed warcraft3 and half-life:counterstrike(the old one). i have read that games like red alert, yuris revenge and quake would also run under wine. would try to install them soon.