Ren Isu
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Posted - 2016.06.23 06:57:28 -
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How to Play Eve Online on Linux
A Guide for Total Morons *
By Ren GÇ£Lead MoronGÇ¥ Isu (thatGÇÖs GÇ£LeadGÇ¥ as in Pb)
Part 1
Download Play-Linux (1.3Gb) and burn it to a DVD (1,2,3 see notes, below):
Play-Linux
- Go to the garage and dust off that 5yo crappy laptop(4) you havenGÇÖt given to your 8yo son yet.
- Go to NewEgg and buy a 120Gb SSD for $40. Replace HDD with SSD **
- Put the Play-Linux DVD in your crappy laptop. Reboot. Wait about two minutes while it boots from the DVD (5)
- Click GÇ£InstallGÇ¥(6)
- Select GÇ£I donGÇÖt want to connect to a wifi networkGÇ¥. Click GÇ£ContinueGÇ¥
- Select GÇ£Erase disk and install Play LinuxGÇ¥ on your spiffy new SSD **
- When it says GÇ£Write the changes to disksGÇ¥ click GÇ£ContinueGÇ¥
- Select a time zone, select a language, Username: Eve Full Name: Online Password: whatever Network Name: boring
- Do yourself a favor and de-select the two GÇ£Require passwordsGÇ¥ unless you need security for some reason. Otherwise youGÇÖll have to enter a password after each reboot and when you make system changes.
- Leave GÇ£Install Graphics Card driversGÇ¥ selected
- You can do all this with the swirly ball for a cursor
- Click GÇ£Continue.GÇ¥ Wait about 10 minutes (could be 20 minutes if your crappy laptop is *really* crappy.)
- Click GÇ£Restart NowGÇ¥
Before you reboot remove the DVD from the drive or youGÇÖll just boot off the DVD again.
- On your first boot you get a welcome screen which you can close.
- Attach to your wifi network by clicking the two opposing arrows (bottom right, on task bar.)
- At some point (maybe on your next boot, even) it will ask you to download a million updates (ok, 500.) DonGÇÖt (yet.)
YouGÇÖre now running Windows 95! (nah, just kidding, itGÇÖs linux.)
- Click the "Volume" icon (bottom right, on task bar) and set it to 100%
- Click the Chromium browser button (bottom left, on task bar)
- In Google you can enter GÇ£eve online linuxGÇ¥ and somewhere on the first page will probably be CCP SnorlaxGÇÖs forum post on getting the eve launcher to work on linux, which makes good reading, and there might be a new launcher, for which you can just click on that link.
- If not, download the Launcher (80Mb) by clicking on this link (or type it in):
https://binaries.eveonline.com/evelauncher-1043593.tar.gz
- When the launcher is finished downloading double-click on it on the Chromium download bar (bottom left in browser.)
- A window comes up with GÇ£evelauncher-1043593.tar.gzGÇ¥ (or whatever version you downloaded) at the top with an GÇ£ExtractGÇ¥ button (below GÇ£FileGÇ¥.) Click GÇ£ExtractGÇ¥.
- Now, because weGÇÖre morons, it asks again in a different window that says GÇ£ExtractGÇ¥ at the top if we want to Extract. Say GÇ£NoGÇ¥ (joke! click GÇ£ExtractGÇ¥ in the upper left of the window.)
- Now, assuming that goes without a hitch, we are close to being done. Click GÇ£CloseGÇ¥ and also close all the open windows, including the browser.
Click on the white GÇ£guitar pickGÇ¥ in the bottom left corner (or press the GÇ£WindowsGÇ¥ keyGÇöI donGÇÖt know jack about Macs, sorry) which puts a vertical white line in the center of the task bar (bottom, middle of screen.) This is a search box, click it and type GÇ£termGÇ¥. Hit return.
In the terminal window that opens type:
cd Downloads/evelauncher (NOTE: GÇ£DownloadsGÇ¥ is capitalized!)
./evelauncher.sh
Yeah, you have to do this every time. Somebody with a big brain will know how to put a groovy icon on the desktop or something but, mehGǪ
You will get a million error messages. Ignore them. Now the Snorlax magic happens. But it takes awhile so since a watched laptop doesnGÇÖt update go make yourself a cup of coffee. Use a French press.
Eventually, unbelievably, you will get the regular Eve Launcher logon screen. Mind. Blown.
With trembling fingers enter your username and password andGǪ
make yourself another cup of coffee because itGÇÖs going to download a bunch of stuff, probably 200Mb or so, but at least not the 7Gb of yesteryearGǪ
Eventually (again), unbelievably (again), you will get the regular Eve Launcher logon screen (again.) Mind NOT Blown since youGÇÖre saying to yourself, GÇ£wtf, is this worth it?GÇ¥ But we really are past the hard stuff. Click that little arrow AND START PLAYING!
That's it! If this worked send the guy living in his mom's basement that is working on Play-Linux $5
* GÇ£MoronsGÇ¥ because every time I talk to someone that knows linux it goes something like this. Me: GÇ£How do you get a listing of the files in a directory?GÇ¥ Person with a big brain that knows linux: GÇ£Simple, you just berflap the grezknocker using the humpsmasher switch and then grep it to dev zero.GÇ¥
** OK, you donGÇÖt *need* to buy a SSD but that crappy laptop will thank you for it |
Ren Isu
State War Academy
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Posted - 2016.06.23 06:58:17 -
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Part 2
Notes:
(1) In Windows just double-click on the GÇ£Play-Linux.isoGÇ¥ file when it finishes downloading and youGÇÖll be prompted to insert a blank DVD, which will get written to. You can buy blank DVDs at Walmart (or Carrefore?) When youGÇÖre done writing put this DVD in your crappy laptop. If youGÇÖre using a Mac, uhGǪ
(2) You could use a USB drive instead of DVD but IGÇÖm old school.
(3) You can download 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Play-Linux. If your crappy laptop has less than 4Gb of memory download 32-bit. If you donGÇÖt know or care download 64-bit.
(4) Everywhere I say GÇ£laptopGÇ¥ you can substitute GÇ£desktop computerGÇ¥
(5) If you need help getting your system to boot from DVD or USB, Google is your friend
(6) Play-Linux is based on Ubuntu but with a bunch of gaming stuff already installed, like a whole bunch of graphics drivers, WINE, and PlayOnLinux. For more info knock yourself out:
Review of Play Linux
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