HOW TO INSTALL AND RUN OBSIDIAN IN UBUNTU LINUX

*I created and tested this guide using Ubuntu Linux 8.10 and 9.04. however, if you have a general knowledge of using Wine with other operating systems... this guide can also be a reference.*

** Please also note that you MUST follow these directions in order! If you do not, you'll end up with overlapped files and a buggy mess. You MUST set up a Wine environment properly before installing or playing the game. If you already have the "winetricks" option installed as I mention below, just skip to the Installation section. **

1. SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

- Open your Synaptic Package Manager, which you can find in the System/Administration menu on the standard GNOME desktop.

- In the "Quick Search" box, type "wine" and hit enter.

- Check "wine" and "wine-gecko" for installation and hit the "Apply" icon. Wait for the install to complete, then close the Package Manager.

- ** NOTE: Wine is an official "3rd Party" package for Ubuntu 8.10 and up. You should see it in the Package Manager. If not, make sure you are allowing 3rd party software. If you are running a different version of Linux or want to run the newest versions of Wine, see http://www.winehq.org/ for details on your version or to learn how to add the source repositories. The version that comes with Ubuntu should suit you fine for Obsidian. **

- Now, open a terminal and type:
Code:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

Then run:
Code:
./winetricks

From this menu, select "dotnet20 - MS .NET 2.0 (requires Windows license)"(...and yes, you should really own a copy of Windows 98 or higher for this to be legal for use.)

2. INSTALLATION

- Download the Obsidian installer to your desktop or other location.

- When it completes, right-click the Obsidian40.exe file from that location and select "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader".

- The file should now be extracting in Wine and then ask you for a path. I used c:\obsidian but you can use whatever as long as it remains in c:\

- Delete any desktop icons produced after the install completes.

3. PLAYING THE GAME

- Now go into the .wine directory inside of home/whateveryourloginname. (You will need to hit CTRL+H to see hidden files.)

- Inside of home/whateveryourloginname/.wine/drive_c you will see the Obsidian folder. Open it.

- Right-click Obsidian.exe and choose "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader" again. The program should load and bring you to the login screen.

EDIT: Hopefully this will help new players on who aren't running Windows whenever registrations are opened again. Could a mod/staff please sticky this?

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Ultima avatar: The Famed JIZABOZ,GWAR Guildmeister

wow good guide :O

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king of the run on sentence.

yea, nice work!

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Ambient - GM Crafter
Pagan Hellfire - GM Mage
Black Coffee - GM Fisher/Chef/Alch

I game on Ubuntu!

Thanks guys! If anyone tries it and doesn't understand something or has a problem, just shoot me a PM or reply the topic

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Ultima avatar: The Famed JIZABOZ,GWAR Guildmeister

Nice guide!

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Nash - Warrior (LoV)
Nashmith - Blacksmith (StoneD)
Nashtamer - Tamer (TLC)
Nash Fisher - Fisherman

Nice work!

Great stuff, thank you.

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Thassius
"Blessed are the noobs, for they shall inherit Obsidian" - Thassius

great tutorial WOG but
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks returns me a 404 error

i recommend someone sticky this so that it stays up for anyone to see.....rather
than ppl searching for it through the search engine

any other staff member agree with sticking it? i know you do

The site must have been temporarily down. I'm bringing it up fine on my end now.

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Ultima avatar: The Famed JIZABOZ,GWAR Guildmeister

to link worked jsut fine that time..
just gotha find an recent obs installer on some dvd somewhere
i hope it work because next time i reinstall my computer there will be no MS on ito sad to have to quit such a great ga
but now there is hope..
would be so sad to have to quit such a great game just because mr gates is screwing up our computer..
thx again wiz and i give u some news once im running the game

MaG

Hey, no problem.

About your DVD thing... don't forget, you can always just download the latest client off the website http://downloads.dxgaming.com/download.php?file=25

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Ultima avatar: The Famed JIZABOZ,GWAR Guildmeister

everything worked just fine and i didn't booted on windows since
for everybody who are wondering if its easy and if it work well
it is very easy
it work better on linux then it use to run on vista with the same computer..

that was my las reason to use MS's so i can quit it for good

everbody should be doing that.. why pay for crap when u can get awesome stuff for free..

and thx again WOG that really saved my obs career,
and for the game file.. i have a shitty 2 gig per month downstream limit on that connection..
sux not to be at home

MaG
homeless and happy about is game

Dont know if its cos im on newest Linux Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx, its version 10.04)

All i had to to was bring up a terminal. Type

Sudo apt-get install wine

Then install obsidian using wine, then start the game using wine. Nice and simple!

No idea why i didnt need to do more stuff now though, i remember last time i used linux+wine with obsi i had to tweak some and install some more stuff.

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Ambient - GM Crafter
Pagan Hellfire - GM Mage
Black Coffee - GM Fisher/Chef/Alch

I game on Ubuntu!

Cool! Good to hear.

Which version of Wine are you currently using, Ambient?

I have noticed issues regarding Wine and Ultima Online clients in general lately myself. Now at the Lucid release, I recommend that people install Wine 1.0 from the package manager, NOT Wine 2.0 for UO clients. I can't confirm this for Obsidian, but at least for Razor clients on other shards... Razor will not even install on Wine 1.2 loaded with all the .net winetricks. It's as if it doesn't even see them, which tells me any program that uses .net stuff will not function right.

I just tested and ensured on Lucid Linux that Razor-based clients work fine on Wine 1.0 with the Framework 2.0 winetrick, so I can be about 99.9% sure the same setup will still run in Obsidian.

I asked GMbob once about what .net framework Obsidian uses at this point, but I couldn't get a definitive answer.

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Ultima avatar: The Famed JIZABOZ,GWAR Guildmeister