[SOLVED] Wrath of the Lich King (WoW) Install Probs.

[Kenza]

All the other game disk i just copied to my HD and ran them with WINE there and it worked fine. Now i Can't Copy the Installer.exe which happens to be the only file (1.3GB) anywhere. Right Clicking and Opening with "Wine Windows Program Loader" does nothing at all (which i thought really unusual). The CD Icon to the left has a lock on it (same as the file system), which when i check permissions it says "I am not the owner, so i can't change these permissions".

I'm running Wine 1.1.8

In Terminal it says this:

desktop:/media/cdrom0$ dir
DirectX Installer.exe
Blah@Blah -desktop:/media/cdrom0$ wine Installer.exe
wine: could not load L"D:\\Installer.exe": Module not found

[FNDII]

same problem for me

[jorj82]

Take a look at this: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=14154

[Kenza]

Tyvm =)

[FNDII]

Ok I am still having a bit of trouble. not sure how that link solved the problem, i got this from reading it.

To successfully install you may do the following:
(substitute username with your username)

sudo -i # Login as root, afaik this doesn't work with sudo.
chown -R root /home/username/.wine # Change ownership of .wine folder to root
WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine /media/cdrom/Installer.exe # Install WotLK
chown -R username /home/username/.wine # Change ownership back
logout # logout as root

Normally i hate logging in as root, but so far it's the only thing I've been able to get working.


I think that what I have to do in order to get the game to install.
But I'm not sure that i understand how to use those instructions.

[hikaricore]

I ran into this issue on my flatmate's dualboot system today.

Simplest solution we came up with was to just reboot and copy the dvd to his hd in ***dows then install it in linux.
I couldn't be bothered to figure out why the hell half of the DVD wasn't readable from nautilus.