1. Install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: You can use desktop, or server if you're a masochist like me. These ship with wine 1.6.2, which is perfectly fine to run eve. I like LTS because it's not as unstable as other desktops, but you can install unstable stuff if you want the 'latest'.
2. Install your video driver: I am using 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-current', with Settings | Software & Updates | Additional Drivers | Nvidia Proprietary. You can see your video card easily with 'lspci | grep -i vga' Note: You must reboot after installing a new video driver!
3. Install Wine: sudo apt-get install wine # It must be at least 1.6. You can do apt-get install wine1.6 if you want. I actually recommend using aptitude, which handles dependancies better. I have also installed 'winetricks' as well, just in case I need them.
4. Install Eve: Download the offline installer files ( http://community.eveonline.com/support/download/offline-installer/ ) and navigate to it with a file manager. Right click select 'Run as Wine Windows Loader'. If you can't run it, you might have to fix a permission. Graphical verison: http://i.imgur.com/Qh6D1.png
5. Pick location: I chose C:\Games\CCP\EVE. (I changed Program Files (x86) to Games)
6. Setup a few shell scripts.
"This is your 'no updates' shell script. I save this in ~/bin/v1" wrote:

# This runs in .wine, with standard display, using the desktop variable 'eve1' with a size, with a location.
/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\bin\exefile.exe"



"# This is your launcher shell script. Use it when you have updates to run. I save this in ~/bin/e1" wrote:

# This runs in .wine, with standard display, using the desktop variable 'eve1' with a size, with a location.
/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"



7. Multibox: For multiple instances, you copy ~/bin/v1 to ~/bin/v2, and edit the file to use 'eve2' instead of 'eve1' on the command line. This can be as many as your machine can handle.
8. Patch eve: After the install is complete, it will start the launcher itself. It might not launch correctly at first, and might be missing the 'login' options on the left. This is due to an SSL bug particular to Linux. Just wait for it to finish validating and patching though. If it fails, you can run the ~/bin/v1 script. When you launch eve in the future, use the v1 script.
9. Launch eve: After you are patched, you can launch, and it will take awhile to launch the first time, particularly the EULA.
10. Disable Captain's Quarters: Go to Settings | video Settings | uncheck 'load station environment'. You want to avoid loading Captain's Quarters. Alternately, you can just click the 'leave captain's quarters' while docked.

err:d3d:wined3d_buffer_map >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_VALUE (0x501) from glMapBufferRange @ buffer.c / 1038
err:d3d:wined3d_buffer_unmap >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glFlushMappedBufferRange @ buffer.c / 1150

OSINFO=`cat /etc/os-release  | grep VERSION= | awk -F\" '{print $2}'`
CPUINFO=`cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep GHz |head -1 | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
BOGOINFO=`dmesg | grep -i bogo | tail -1 | awk -F\( '{print $2}' `
MEMINFO=`cat /proc/meminfo  | grep MemTotal | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
DISKINFO=`dmesg | grep ata1 | grep max | tail -1 | awk -F: '{print $3}' | awk -F, '{print $1}'`
NVIDIAINFO=`nvidia-debugdump  -l | grep name | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk -F\( '{print $1}'`
WINEINFO=`wine --version`
echo "Core stats: ${OSINFO},  ${NVIDIAINFO}, ${WINEINFO}"
echo "Bragging stats: ${CPUINFO}, ${BOGOINFO},  ${MEMINFO}, ${DISKINFO}"

1. Download latest driver: https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx Select your card, use "lspci | grep -i vga" and Linux 64-bit to use it.
2. Logout of X
3. Go to console shell account using Control-Shift-F1 and login
4. Stop X sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
5. Run the Nvidia drivers as root. Mine was: sudo bash Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.30.run
6. Accept agreement, install the 32 bit versions of stuff, allow it to alter your xconfig.
7. Reboot
8. Login to X
9. sudo nvidia-settings
10. On X Server Display Configuration, Dragged second monitor screen, and hit apply, and save.
11. Started Eve Launcher
12. Went to gear icon in the upper right (options), and changed mode to DX9 only, and hit save. (Newest versions of nvidia has DX11 emulation, which doesn't work.)