Linux support?

[morningstar8]

Having ditched Windows for Linux, I'm wondering about the potential for Linux support or, barring that, using WINE to run OOTP. Has anybody had any luck with OOTPB 2007, or any earlier version (I purchased 4, 5, 6, and 6.5)?

[Erik W.]

Linux isn't supported as far as I know. You might consider dual-booting.

[onnel]

The latest version of Football Manager works beautifully with WINE, so it's reasonable to think that OOTP will, too!

onnel

[Erik W.]

Originally Posted by onnel

The latest version of Football Manager works beautifully with WINE, so it's reasonable to think that OOTP will, too!

onnel

I think the difference is in the eLicense.

[onnel]

Good call..hadn't considered that. :-( Have to check if WINE and ELiscence play nicely together.

[wbonnell]

ootp2006 and e-license worked flawlessly on fedora core 5 with wine. The only minor issue is you can't *unlicense*.

[billethius]

Originally Posted by wbonnell

ootp2006 and e-license worked flawlessly on fedora core 5 with wine. The only minor issue is you can't *unlicense*.

Yes you can. You just have to add -unlicense to the end of the command you use to run the game.

That said, my limited trials with OOTP07 and WINE have thus far been unsuccessful due to the fact that the game installs into 2 separate folders and a third is used to store the User's data. This is probably something that can be addressed by editing the WINE registry though.

[morningstar8]

All, thanks very much for the info.

If any of you hear about a way to get OOTP to work under Linux, I'd very much appreciate it if you would send me an e-mail or post a reply to this topic. I'll peek in every so often to see how OOTP is doing anyway.

[billethius]

Ok, I got it running under WINE. Here's what I did:

1. Install the game as you normally would.
2. After installation, find out where the 'user data' and 'application data' folders are.
2a. My appdata folder was in .wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/myname/App...
3. Create the 'paths' file as instructed in this thread.
4. Make sure that the user data folder contents get copied to whatever path you set up in the paths file.

After that, it should at least start up. I haven't attempted to play around with it yet.

[morningstar8]

Yyyyyessss! The demo version is running under Linux (Ubuntu, BTW), and I can see the various management screens!

Thanks very much, billethius! Now...I've stayed up way past my bedtime, which I guess is par for the course with a new OOTP release. It's hard to want to go to sleep now ;-)

[ScottyB]

Just wondering what the status of this experiment is? I dual boot now, but would love to go all-Linux. Any bugs with WINE or are all functions of the game working properly?

Thanks,
Scott

[billethius]

Everything, even facegen, works perfectly.

[USN Squid]

You can always run VMWare, as well.

[pappyzan]

Originally Posted by USN Squid

You can always run VMWare, as well.

yep, vmware is the way to go. dual-booting is so 2 years ago...

[jarmenia]

Originally Posted by billethius

Ok, I got it running under WINE. Here's what I did:

1. Install the game as you normally would.
2. After installation, find out where the 'user data' and 'application data' folders are.
2a. My appdata folder was in .wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/myname/App...
3. Create the 'paths' file as instructed in this thread.
4. Make sure that the user data folder contents get copied to whatever path you set up in the paths file.

After that, it should at least start up. I haven't attempted to play around with it yet.

Have you noticed any speed issues?

[jarmenia]

Originally Posted by jarmenia

Have you noticed any speed issues?

To answer my own question, no. If anything its faster because I get to use all four gigs of my RAM and both processors.

The more I dabble with Ubuntu, the more I love it!

[SandMan]

Are any of you that got this running under linux using a DSL connection? I need to know if this will work before I get my workstation setup here at home......

[jarmenia]

Originally Posted by SandMan

Are any of you that got this running under linux using a DSL connection? I need to know if this will work before I get my workstation setup here at home......

Cable here but that's shouldn't make a difference to OOTP.

[ScottyB]

Yeah, your internet connection should have nothing to do with how well the software works.

I have OOTP7 running perfectly using MEPIS Linux, with no additional configuration needed whatsoever. I find it to be significantly faster than in XP.

But I can't seem to get it to run in Ubuntu (7.10). The game will load the splash screen, then it simply terminates. Can't quite figure it out. I've tried the advice above with no luck...

Anyone have it running with 7.10 that might be able to help?

Scott

[Pommpie]

Just to add to the chorus, I play OOTP2007 <i>exclusively</i> under Wine, and it mostly works (there's some directory fiddling mentioned above but it's no big deal). I haven't noticed any features that fail, either, so that's also pleasant. Speed seems to be as good as it was on Windows XP x64 for me.

One thing I <i>will</i> observe is that eLicense is stupid. It works, but I have noticed that the game can get spontaneously unlicensed. This has happened to me twice: once I was able to insert my old license key and everything worked hunky-dorey, but the other time I had to e-mail eLicense and wade through about a billion things before they opened up one of my slots. I suspect part of the problem was that I had previously installed that version of OOTP on my Windows machine.

Of course, I already hated eLicense with the firey hate of a thousand suns. And it did eventually get fixed because I was very lucky and didn't get an idiot for a support representative. But still, it's something for Wine users to keep an eye out on.

(And this brings up the immortal questions: why can't game companies <i>not</i> treat us like criminals and just make software that works? Aaah...)