sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine
sudo aptitude update
#sudo aptitude remove wine wine1.2 wine1.3 wine1.4 wine1.5
sudo aptitude install wine1.5 winetricks
mkdir -p ~/bin
echo '/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"' >~/bin/eve1
echo '/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve2,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"' >~/bin/eve2
echo '/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve3,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"' >~/bin/eve3
echo Run 'eve1' to run your first instance of eve.

Here is how I run Eve with Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop. Please note that I assume you got your video card working, as those are somewhat different depending on your card. Installing eve itself is pretty easy with wine, just download the install executable, and run it from your desktop. I recommend the full version.

1. Install the wine PPA for the latest version: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine
2. Do an apt update, I use aptitude to do this: sudo aptitude update
3. Remove all versions of wine: sudo aptitude search wine # Look for i in the first column and do aptitude remove on those
4. Install wine1.5 and winetricks: sudo aptitude install wine1.5 winetricks # if this fails, install via Synaptic Package Manager
5. While that is running, setup a shell script to start eve, I use: /usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe" #Note the low resolution here
6. If you want a secondary eve instance to play at the same time: /usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve2,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe" # Note the 'eve2'
7. Once the install is done, run your shell script to start eve.

Optional tricks that previous versions needed:

1. On the EULA, wait for it to load, some people have reported crashes by messing with it early.
2. Install winetricks hack for d3dx9_36: winetricks d3dx9_36 # Note you run this as yourself, not root
3. Run winecfg to enable builtin versus native libraries as necessary. Common ones I have had to deal with: msvcr90, msxml3, msvcr100, msvcr80, msvcr90, msvcrt I was able to remove all of these builtin/native mess of libraries with wine 1.5.

Please, if you have comments/additions, please let me know.

If you want something to cut/paste to set all this up for you:

# aptitude search ~iwine

well i guess i might need a dedicated card then.

I had hoped the built in bits would work without because of all the ram, bit I guess not...

Perhapse this guide is a bit outdated because when using the command : sudo aptitude update
It doesnt work since there is no such command.

even if everything in the hanger is pitch black and everything in space is eye-bleed white

Waruiko - what drivers version are installed ?

to see what video card installed-
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cayman PRO [AMD Radeon 6900 Series]

all devices
lspci

for ATI - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
for NVIDIA - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

or - search in google - how to install proprietary driver for your video card .

E: Unable to locate package s3tc

I've tried to take classes on that too but the teachers good teachers just want to be done with you and the bad ones just like to lord their knowledge.

Yeah well I've tried to learn this stuff ad figure it out on my own but without a good understanding of basic console commands stuff like what you puled up reads as gibberish to me.
* snip *
I don't want to waste that time if I can help it. I don't think my vast understanding of the 'man' command and conceptual understanding of what VIM is will help me solve this problem. I keep posting in the hopes that this is both a standard problem with someone knowing a standard solution, and to learn through exposure. If I wasn't wiling to put in the effort I'd just have installed windows.

Th whole experience is more frustrating then expected though I'll admit that.

I keep asking because the solution seems to be 'buy a 200ish video card' that I can't really afford for another month or two and

Yesterday I had to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch, so here's what I did to get Eve running again - might help, might not.

(Disclaimer: I only use Wine for Eve, I only ever run a single client, and I know practically nothing of the theory behind what I'm doing.)

1. Go here, and follow the instructions "Adding the WineHQ PPA Repository" and "Installing Wine". Install the Wine 1.5 beta package.

2. Open a terminal and paste the following:

winetricks corefonts d3dx9_36 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010

(I don't know if this is still necessary, I did it anyway).

3. Download the Eve Windows installer from here.

4. Run it. It should pop up in Wine, and takes a while to install. Go away and come back later. When the EULA window appears it will be blank for about 5-10 minutes. Don't panic.

5. In the Settings / Graphics menu, untick "Load Station Environment" to stop Captain's Quarters from trying to appear. You can safely retick this later on if you want to spin your ship around inside a station. For now, leave it unticked.

6. Theoretically, as of this date, Eve should now work. If it doesn't I've probably missed something vital, but fingers crossed.

When I run winecfg dx11.dll isn't listed on my overides under the library tab and if theres some universal off switch to dx11.dll that I need to flip it doesn't seem to be visible in the GUI.

Well!
All went well until to the last part
This happened.
The shell script didn't run.
Any ideas?
"Screenshot"

Well!
All went well until to the last part
This happened.
The shell script didn't run.
Any ideas?
"Screenshot"

Then you have to run that shell script. 'chmod a+x ~/bin/eve1' to make it executable, then do eve1.

but the download process for eve didn't even start??

On a side note , whats the optirun command for eve?

Install eve or get an install of eve copied over from your windows partition. To install eve, download the eve installer, find it with a file manager, make it executable, and run it. I installed mine to c:\Games\CCP\EVE as above.

...
echo Now go install eve, or copy it from a windows computer to C:\Games\CCP\EVE.

Then you have to run that shell script. 'chmod a+x ~/bin/eve1' to make it executable, then do eve1.

Hi,
When I try to run the chmod at the end I get:

din@SpitFre ~ $ chmod ~/bin/eve*
chmod: invalid mode: `/home/odin/bin/eve1'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.

I don't understand why this is happening. I've installed things fine before, twice and now this is going on after I reformatted?
It's only in the last two weeks that this has happened...

Yeah, that command is missing an argument. Try:

chmod a+x ~/bin/eve*

err:wgl:has_opengl Failed to load libGL: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:wgl:has_opengl OpenGL support is disabled.

hitting play (and I have disabled the d3d11 option in winecfg) gives:-

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function d3d11.dll.D3D11CreateDevice called in 32-bit code

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose "/home/matthew/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/CCP/EVE/eve.exe"

fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:gameux:GameExplorerImpl_VerifyAccess (0x138018, L"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\CCP\\EVE\\eve.exe", 0x32fd88)
matthew@matthew-ubuntu:~$ 20:56:09: Debug: src/helpers.cpp(140): 'CreateActCtx' failed with error 0x00000103 (no more data available.).
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x33cfc0, overlapped 0x3bbb188): stub
fixme:winsock:WSALookupServiceBeginW (0x33d020 0x00000ff0 0x33d010) Stub!
[0217/205610:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(111)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x48b000 0 0x33f2a4 4
Network layer using: CarbonIO
EVE Client version 8.2 build 476047 starting 20:56:19
Starting up Trinity through _trinity_deploy.dll ...
libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly (using GL renderer "GeForce GTS 450/PCIe/SSE2", version "1.4 (2.1.2 NVIDIA 310.32)").
err:d3d:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Failed to find a suitable pixel format.
err:d3d:wined3d_adapter_init Failed to get a GL context for adapter 0x1476e8.
err:d3d:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Failed to find a suitable pixel format.
err:d3d:wined3d_adapter_init Failed to get a GL context for adapter 0x1504d0.
An exception has occurred. It has been logged in the log server as exception #1

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1771806

Try to install the s3tc library and driconf (maybe, but check on ubuntu forums if is doesn't work ->sudo apt-get install s3tc driconf) then run driconf (I think) from the command line. It should put up a GUI, then find the option to turn on s3tc.

I did it over a year ago so I'm not sure if it still works though.

old forum post

Hi all, was running okay on Tuesday, using Exefile.exe, but now crashing after a minute or so - game locks up, unable to exit without killing process.

Not entirely sure what I need to post that's relevant atm, but:

Ubuntu 12.04, Wine 1.5.31.

Overrides:
d3d11 (disabled)
d3dx9_36 (native, builtin),
msvcr100 (native, builtin)
msvcr80 (native, builtin)
msvcr90 (native, builtin)
msvcrt (native, builtin)

Should I try to reinstall from scratch? Any thoughts appreciated.

Now back to square one. Seems to log in okay using Evefile.exe, crashes after a minute or so.

Git patching now necessary I guess.

Edit: is the Awesomium patch simply a fix for the launcher issue, or is it likely to have any effect on running Eve itself?

The Awesomium patch is simply to correctly handle certificate handling (i.e. https stuf and has nothing to do with any of the eve software aside from the fact that the launcher requires proper https to do it's crap), it has no influence on the client itself. Your client crashing would not be resolved by patching your wine with the awesomium patch.

I for instance did not do the awesomium patch because I don't care about the launcher since I prefer the EveFile.exe method and for me the client doesn't crash (aside from the occasional crash).

Currently restarting from scratch on a fresh Wine prefix. If that doesn't work I'm stumped.

Unfortunately I can't find anything of importance in the information you posted. I suggest you start a post at the wine forums because I have no idea why your client crashes nor why there is no errors showing up in your terminal.

I'm probably doing it wrong, but...

First run the EULA is slooooowwwwwwww.

Awww come on. It's been discussed over and over again. Launcher works fine with wine patched to properly handle intermediate CAs.

Awww come on. It's been discussed over and over again. Launcher works fine with wine patched to properly handle intermediate CAs.

Please, what are "intermediate CAs"?

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates

Awww come on. It's been discussed over and over again. Launcher works fine with wine patched to properly handle intermediate CAs.

Just want to confirm: CQ still not working? I wonder what changed cuz i remember it was working at some point.
Many players don't bother with it but i love the feature and would love to turn it on.

While OP's post is very helpful, it is a little outdated and can/should be updated a little to reflect the current situation;

I'm having trouble every time I run eve: "Procedure not found. Could not load python dll."

I did run winetricks d3dx9_36.

Am I missing something else?

I actually used the ubuntu app UI thingy and install windows compatibility. Figured that installed wine, and it did activate the installer and all that crap.

Today's automatic Ubuntu 12.04 update made EVE segfault upon launch.

Problem went away after I uninstalled and reinstalled the proprietary AMD Catalyst driver.

well i guess i might need a dedicated card then. I had hoped the built in bits would work without because of all the ram, bit I guess not...

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