WowME for Linux - It's Back!

[L'Lawliet]

Its back, and since the instructions are the same, i just copied pasted!

ok this works great for linux cause i tried.
1. download the rar
2. extract everything into your wow folder.(replace if asked)
3. REMOVED
4.(if you have a wow shortcut in Games) open up the main menu config and change the properties in world of warcraft. here is mine. (sh /home/cloud/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoWME.sh) if you want to use it change cloud to your name.
5. (if you dont have a wow shortcut) copy and paste WowME.sh onto your desktop.
6. Run it either from games or desktop. (desktop click "Run in Terminal")
7. once open enter your info and press F8 and login.
8. Enjoy
Download:
WoWMELinux.rar

ALL CREDITS TO KYNOX FOR THE FIX. ALL I DID WAS MAKE IT WORK IN LINUX.

FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE STUMPED ON INSTRUCTIONS 3 AND 4
open up terminal and it will say your name before @

NO NEED TO SCAN SINCE LINUX CANT GET VIRUSES

To get a main menu option:
1. open terminal
2. type in

wget http://kde-files.org/CONTENT/content-files/41569-wow-icon-scalable.svg -O WoW.svg

then

sudo mv WoW.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/

and lastly

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/wow.desktop

3. in the text file type this in

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=World of Warcraft
Exec=wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe
Icon=WoW.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Game;
StartupNotify=false

YOU MUST HAVE WOWME ALREADY IN YOUR WOW FOLDER.

[Phygar]

Nice post! What exactly is wowme.sh though? What did you do to make that?

[L'Lawliet]

stop freaking me out man, and if you had linux, you would see that wowme has problems with it, and that is a so called program for linux. or a script for short.

[Phygar]

Sorry about that. I just meant, is it the loader(wowme) and the dll packed into 1?

[L'Lawliet]

oh no, its why i am saying you still need wowme.exe. this is a script which simply makes it work for linux. took a while to make, yet it works.

[Phygar]

Ah, ok. I understand now.

[L'Lawliet]

si, i tought you young sasquatch. lol.

[Cypher]

Lol @ "NO NEED TO SCAN BECAUSE LINUX CANT GET VIRUSES". When will people understand that neither OSX or Linux is invulnerable to malware. Its an extremely dangerous mindset.

Sure, to do something fairly destructive you'd have to give it your password, but that's exactly the same as Vista/2k8 with UAC configured correctly, soooo....

[Griffton]

Lol @ "NO NEED TO SCAN BECAUSE LINUX CANT GET VIRUSES". When will people understand that neither OSX or Linux is invulnerable to malware. Its an extremely dangerous mindset.

Sure, to do something fairly destructive you'd have to give it your password, but that's exactly the same as Vista/2k8 with UAC configured correctly, soooo....

Hopefully if one is running linux, you would think they are not stupid enough to use questionable content....

[Cypher]

Hopefully if one is running linux, you would think they are not stupid enough to use questionable content....

That's the same as windows though. If an intelligent user is at the keyboard malware is not an issue. The linux crowd have been constantly trying to push towards the less sophisticated users though (see: Ubuntu). So again, such a mindset is not only ignorant, it's dangerous (regardless of your skill level).

[BoogieManTM]

That's the same as windows though. If an intelligent user is at the keyboard malware is not an issue. The linux crowd have been constantly trying to push towards the less sophisticated users though (see: Ubuntu). So again, such a mindset is not only ignorant, it's dangerous (regardless of your skill level).

I would hope a virus scanner would LAWL @ u for trying to scan a bash script, though.. How in the hell could it tell the difference between a nasty, dirty rm -rf $varthatpointsto/ from a real, legit, rm -rf $varthatpointstoatempdirectory?

No doubt there are virus' for linux, and they can be just as nasty as the windows ones. The major difference (besides linux being more a more secure system in general) in windows and linux virus' are just that linux isn't nearly as targetted a platform. Same as linux isn't a target platform for most games. It doesn't mean it _can't_ run the games, just that the developers don't develop the games for linux.

It as always comes down to a problem between the chair and the keyboard

[Cypher]

I would hope a virus scanner would LAWL @ u for trying to scan a bash script, though.. How in the hell could it tell the difference between a nasty, dirty rm -rf $varthatpointsto/ from a real, legit, rm -rf $varthatpointstoatempdirectory?

No doubt there are virus' for linux, and they can be just as nasty as the windows ones. The major difference (besides linux being more a more secure system in general) in windows and linux virus' are just that linux isn't nearly as targetted a platform. Same as linux isn't a target platform for most games. It doesn't mean it _can't_ run the games, just that the developers don't develop the games for linux.

It as always comes down to a problem between the chair and the keyboard

Precisely.

[Imalinux]

could you make a version for crossover games? its probably easy but i don't know how

[L'Lawliet]

i dont have crossover so no, i cannot.

[tripleblade3]

K wait... two things...
1. Will this work for Macs? (I'm guessing it might because of the *nix architecture but I'm not sure)
2. You can play WoW on Linux?!?!?

Edit: Scratch that question about this working on Macs, it seems that this MEFix only works if your running the .exe which is totally different then running wow.app xD