Karmic, Wine, Warcraft III

NOTE: This was a draft post for a long time.  Not sure of what I wrote now or why I never published this post after writing it.

Here are the step that I did to get Warcraft III Frozen Throne working in Ubuntu Karmic 32bit through Wine with support for both battle.net and sound. I am doing this on a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic (with no updates installed).

1. Install Wine 1.1.38 for Jaunty (because no debs exists for Karmic)


2. Install Warcraft III
   
   
   
   1. Insert the cd (or mount the disk image in my case)
   
   
   2. Right-click the install.exe file and select "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader"
   
   
   3. The Wine Gecko Installer will ask for permission to install a dependency. Click "Install".
      


3. Install The Frozen Throne
   
   
   
   1. Insert the cd (or mount the disk image in my case)
   
   
   2. Right-click the install.exe file and select "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader"


4. Install the Warcraft III (The Frozen Throne) Full 1.24d patch by right-clicking the patch that you download and select "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader"

Karmic, Video, Blue

When watching videos in Karmic, everything that should have been yellow was blue. To fix this problem, open the Totem Movie Player (Applications -> Sound & Video -> Movie Player), then change the Hue setting to match the Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation settings. These settings can be found in Edit -> Preferences -> Display.

(I found the solution to this problem from this Ubuntu forum thread.)

Karmic, VPN, ItsHidden.com

To use the VPN service provided by ItsHidden.com in Karmic, complete the following steps (one thing changed since Jaunty):

1. Install the PPTP plug-in for Network Manager
   $ sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
2. Restart Network Manager
   $ sudo service network-manager restart
3. Create the VPN connection
4. In the "Advanced..." settings, enable "Use Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE)"

The one change is minor. Instead of the command "sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart" in step 2, it is now "sudo service network-manager restart". Both commands seem to work, but the new command is the preferred method.

(I had a previous post about getting ItsHidden.com to work in Jaunty.)

Karmic, Java

To install Java in Karmic, execute the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

When you have to accept the licence agreements, use the "Tab" key to cycle through the options and the "Enter" key select an option.

(I got this answer from here.)