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| Although not officially supported by CRS, several players have taken it upon themselves to try to run Battleground Europe on a Linux platform.
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| Below is Caydel's account on his way to make the game playable, taken from the forums. The original thread can be found here: http://forums.battlegroundeurope.com/showthread.php?t=357269
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| =Caydel's Guide=
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| In 2008, I wrote the original http://forums.battlegroundeurope.com/showthread.php?t=254848 How to Run WWIIOL Flawlessly in Linux[/URL] post that is stickied in this forum.
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| With the new 1.33 release, and the updates to Wine over the last 2.5 years, it's time to update that post. However, given that it was edited by a Rat (presumably to sticky it), I no longer have the ability to modify it.
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| As it currently stands, the game is very close to running perfectly in vanilla wine. Unfortunately, there is still a persistent mouse problem. Luckily, at this point there is a patch that hopefully will go into Wine within a few releases that will fix this.
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| ==1. Download the source code and patch it==
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| *(Easy way): Download my pre-patched Wine 1.3.15 source, and extract it.
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| *(Advanced way): If you are comfortable with Git, check out the latest copy of the Wine source code, then apply the latest patch from http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971
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| ==2. Install the build dependencies==
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| Depending on your distribution, the exact packages you need to install to compile wine may differ. Please reference the Wine Recommended Packages page to get a list of packages you have to install for your distribution before compiling Wine.
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| For Ubuntu, Fedora, & SuSE, the easiest way to do this is to download and run http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/install-wine-deps.sh as root (e.g. with sudo). Right-click on the link and (save link as).
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| To run it use:
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| *$ sudo sh ./install-wine-deps.sh
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| ==3. Compile the source==
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| Once you've installed the build dependencies you need, you're ready to compile the package. In the terminal window, after having navigated to the extracted source code, run the following commands:
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| *$ ./configure
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| *$ make
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| *<nowiki># make install</nowiki>
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| The last command requires root privileges. Although you should never run Wine as root, you will need to install it this way.
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| ==4. Install Battleground Europe and enjoy!==
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| As the title says, just download and install the game. Happy hunting, and let me know how it goes.
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| [[Category:Support]]
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| [[Category:GameHelp]]
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