Installing WoW under Wine

Following this recipe: http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_functionality_on_Wine And this detail: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4496521038

After making sure the hardware requirements are satisfied, the recipe looks like this:

• winetricks
  • install game
  • wowtrial

The installer starts, but hangs when displaying "Downloading updated tools"

Check to see if the patch in Temp is completely downloaded:

rday@potato:~/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Temp$ ls -l
total 23112
-rwxrwxr-x 1 rday rday  6399096 May 23 18:04 wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-downloader.exe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rday rday 12866240 May 23 18:11 wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-patch.exe.part
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rday rday  4392070 May 23 18:34 wow-patch.mpq

That patch has a .part extension, so it is not ready to run yet. But 12MB is about the right size.

Cancel the installer and go to the WorldofWarcraft Temp directory Manually run the wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-patch.exe

Wait for the Installer/Updater to download the rest of the game.