Play On Linux

PlayOnLinux

A project that makes windows games playable with wine on linux.

http://www.playonlinux.com/

Installation instructions

This worked for playing League of Legends on openSuse 12.3 and 13.1 with Playonlinux 4.2.2

Overview

• Install wine
• Install wxWidgets
• Install 7zip
• Install cabextract
• Install Mesa-demo-x (glxinfo)
• Force wine to use 32 bit
• Download newest playonlinux
• Unpack playonlinux
• Start playonlinux
• Install an offered program from within playonlinux gui

Instructions

sudo zypper install python-wxWidgets p7zip cabextract wine Mesa-demo-x
sudo echo "export WINEARCH=win32" >>/etc/bash.bashrc.local
export WINEARCH=win32
cd ~
wget http://www.playonlinux.com/script_files/PlayOnLinux/4.2.2/PlayOnLinux_4.2.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf PlayOnLinux_4.2.2.tar.gz
cd playonlinux
./playonlinux

To get the newest dev version from git, do this instead of wget, tar, cd:

git clone https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4
cd POL-POM-4/

Mesa

If using Mesa instead of a proprietary openGL driver, there is a missing library. It has to be installed separately for LoL:

cd
git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~mareko/libtxc_dxtn
cd libtxc_dxtn/
./autogen.sh 
./configure 
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

If the library still is not found by the PoL LoL installer script, then add a conf file with LIBDIR (e.g. /usr/local/lib64) in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and repeat sudo ldconfig

Update

Step 1: Update playonlinux Script

If you have the git version, do this:

cd ~/POL-POM-4/
git pull

If you have the tar version, do this:

cd ~
wget http://www.playonlinux.com/script_files/PlayOnLinux/4.2.4/PlayOnLinux_4.2.4.tar.gz
tar xzvf PlayOnLinux_4.2.4.tar.gz
cd ~/playonlinux
./playonlinux

Start game, to check if that helped already (unlikely)

Step 2: Update Game

./playonlinux

• Uninstall
  • select Game
  • select Deinstall
  • select Delete Drive
• Reinstall
  • Select download Setup
  • Install according on screen instructions (don't change path, don't let setup start the game)

This worked for the update 4.2.2 -> 4.2.4 Update to 4.2.5 ongoing...

Step 3: Update Wine

Sometimes there are new wine environments that are not standard for installation. To install them, do this:

• Start playonlinux
• Select Menu Tools/Manage Wine Versions
• Add a Wine version, preferably one with LoL in the name, close.
• Select LoL, Configure, Wine Version -> the new version, close
• Start game...