Hi Guys,
I am now able to play Perpetuum-Online under Linux. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
Here's the step on how I did it.
Note before starting. I'm sure I have more than what it is require to have the game working but I'm listing what I have installed to be sure everybody can find out what they are missing.
1. Install Wine (1.2.1).
a. Open the Ubuntu Software Centre
b. Search for Wine
c. Install Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Beta Release)
d. When install is done. Select all the add-ons except the KnetAttach.
d.1. Here is the list of the add-ons.
d.2. Free font with the same metrics as Symbol
d.3. Font with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier
d.4. Samba nameservice integration server
d.5. Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Web Browser)
d.6. Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
d.7. Wine .exe and other executable thumbnailer for Gnome.
2. Download the Perpetuum client installer from the web site.
a. Open a terminal and type de following command.
a.1. wget http://content.perpetuum-online.com/fil … _setup.exe
b. Make the executable an executable.
b.1. In the same terminal type chmod +x perpetuum_setup.exe
c. Install the game.
c.1 wine perpetuum_setup.exe
3. When the game is downloaded and installed you need to get winetricks and install other tools and software with it.
a. Get winetricks with the following terminal command.
a.1. wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
b. When the download is finish use the following command to install what made the game work for me.
b.1. sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 allfonts d3dx9 d3dx10 psm=on vsm-hard vjrun20 fontfix dsound d3dxof d3dx9_42 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_35 d3dx9_31 d3dx9_28 d3dx9_26
Note Some of those software will ask you questions during the installation and I just had to follow the usual steps to install them.
4. After those steps I was able to play the game.
Keep me posted if it worked for you or not and if not then what made it work.
