Linux
- Running AO on Linux has been working for ages and is quite easy to do
- The new engine is working as well but the Old engine has the more chance to be performant
- Based on How to play AO on Linux or Mac
Install Wine and Dependencies
- Installation (For Debian based distributions)
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> apt install wine winetricks zenity cabextract winbind </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