You need to open a terminal window in order to accomplish this. I am not 100% sure how this is done in ubuntu since I am a gentoo user but if you are using gnome as your window manager it is probably accessed by going to:
Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
Once you start the terminal application it will open a command prompt terminal where you can enter commands and such.
If you installed EQ with wine your EverQuest directory will probably be located at
Code:
/home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/EverQuest
when I say cd I mean use the linux command cd in the terminal to "change directory" to the EverQuest directory.
When you open the terminal you will be in your home directory so do the following to get to the EQ directory.
Code:
cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/EverQuest
Some notes about the above command.
- the "." before a folder/file name indicates that it is a hidden folder or file, meaning you cant see it in your file explorer or in a terminal if you do a ls, if you do a ls -a you will see them.
- The \ in Program\ Files, is an escape character that helps the space to be recognized in the file name. If you do not escape spaces with the \ you will get errors.
Ok once you are in the directory you can run the game with
Code:
wine eqgame.exe patchme
The script I provided in my last reply to this thread is a way to optimize your startup so it runs on one core only to prevent some of the known issues with running on a dual core machine.
If you are not sure how to create the script and copy/paste the code I posted to use it just use the following command instead of the one above to start the game on one core.
Code:
taskset -c 0 wine eqgame.exe patchme
That does the same thing as
Code:
wine eqgame.exe patchme
It just binds the process to the first cpu.
I hope this clarifies everything. It is about as simple as I can explain it. You really should read up on basic linux commands and such before you start trying to really get into linux. It will save you a lot of posting!
here is a quick google search that should get you going
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...d2df88517031cf
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