Linux

Warning! Work in progress

• Running AO on Linux has been working for ages and is quite easy to do
• The new engine should be working as well but the Old engine has the more chance to be performant
• Based on [How to play AO on Linux or Mac https://www.ao-universe.com/index.php?id=14&mid=8&pid=570]

Install Wine and Dependencies

• Installation (For Debian based distributions)

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> apt install wine winetricks zenity cabextract </syntaxhighlight>

• Download MS packages using Winetricks

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> export WINEARCH=win32 winetricks dotnet20 corefonts fontfix vcrun2005 vcrun6 </syntaxhighlight>

• Download and install the Old Engine

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> cd /tmp wget http://update.anarchy-online.com/download/AO/AnarchyOnline_EP1.exe wine AnarchyOnline_EP1.exe </syntaxhighlight>

• Run the game from the command line (or you if you ticked Add Desktop shortcut, you shoud have a shortcut in your OS)

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Funcom/Anarchy\ Online wine Anarchy.exe </syntaxhighlight>

HTML rendering

• If the launcher is having problem rendering HTML, install wine gecko manually

Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> sudo mkdir /usr/share/wine/gecko/ sudo wget -P /usr/share/wine/gecko/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47/wine_gecko-2.47-x86.msi sudo wget -P /usr/share/wine/gecko/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47/wine_gecko-2.47-x86_64.msi </syntaxhighlight>

TODO

• Fix mouse problem