This will generally take a little while and will require you to click through some prompts while installing various versions of. Next we use Winetricks to install corefonts and Microsoft’s. Note you will need to be sure you have 7zip (p7zip-full package) installed for Winetricks to work properly. The first command creates a new Wine prefix for our MTGO install that will be located at ~/.wine-mtgo The second and third commands download the Winetricks script for installing Wine dependencies and makes it executable. WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-mtgo" wine setup.exe winetricks corefonts dotnet461 ddr=gdi win7 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-mtgo" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot In order run the following commands in your terminal: We want to create a custom Wine prefix for MTGO though so anything extra you might install does not affect its ability to run. If you are using a non-Ubuntu Linux distribution you can find the Wine 2.20 source code here and you can find directions for building it generically here.īy default Wine installs all of your applications to the same Windows sandbox. You can do this by running the following few commands in the directory you downloaded the files to:
This means you want to install the following four debian packages to get Wine 2.20 which works with MTGO.Īfter you download the four packages install them and their dependencies. The version of Wine in the default Ubuntu repos is a bit too old and the latest version of Wine staging (2.21) as of my posting this has a regression that does not let MTGO launch properly. Today I would like to share the steps you need to take to run MTGO on your Ubuntu 16.04 based Linux computer under Wine.įirst things first - we will need to install a specific version of Wine. Recently though Wine technology has advanced enough that we can run MTGO on Linux through Wine as opposed to running it through a Virtual Machine. My most commonly used Windows application is Magic the Gathering Online (or MTGO for short). That being said - I have still kept copies of Windows around in virtual machines to allow me to use some Windows applications.
My personal computers have been all Linux for nearly a decade now.
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