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Thread: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

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    WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    Hi. I'm a Ubuntu noob, but I seem to be having a problem that nobody else has raised.

    I've been trying to install World of Warcraft on Ubuntu 7.10 using Wine.

    I've copied the files from cd to a folder on my desktop and have tried to open the installer using wine. But when I do, nothing happens for about thirty seconds. Then a window labelled "installer" opens, and says, "no installer data could be found."

    So what do I do? The file is there, despite the error message.

    Is this a wine problem or a blizzard problem? I've installed the game successfully on another machine (windows).

    Another problem. When I try to install directly from the DVD, I can't get the installer.exe file to display. I followed the directions on the main "installing WoW" instructions, but to no avail. When I give the command,

    "sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0/"

    Terminal says,

    "mount: /dev/scd0 already mounted or /media/cdrom1/ busy
    mount: according to mtab, /dev/scd0 is mounted on /media/cdrom1"

    I've also tried using Playonlinux, but I get to the stage where it says "don't click ok because you're not SURE that the installation is complete" And even if I do click ok it just creates an empty file named world of warcraft.


    Any suggestions? I'd be very thankful for any help anyone can offer.

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    try unmounting the disk before inputting the mount command.. did you do that?

    also did you run winecfg in terminal?
    Last edited by flytripper; August 2nd, 2008 at 01:11 PM.

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    I ran winecfg, but I'll try unmounting before mounting as you suggest.

    ummm, how do I do that?

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    i just copied the wow from the win program files too
    .wine/drive_c/Program Files in my home

    than ran the wow.exe with wine
    no need to install really

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    Floridor, this is a common issue when trying to install from WOW DVDs. You won't be able install this way, even when you copy these files to your hard drive.

    You will need to download the game via these links to install. I would recommend burning these to dvd when you're done downloading.

    http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/accou...downloader.exe WOW Burning Crusade

    http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downl...downloader.exe WOW

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    Brilliant! Thanks! That's solved that problem.

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    thanks for this solution..

    http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/W...ide_with_fstab

    had problem with the installer.exe thing

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    Re: WoW installation: Wine can't find installer.exe

    Even after the nohide, I received this same error on Wrath upgrade. The fix was to do a chown -R user:user * on the installer files. When copying I received a perm denied after custom nohide mount, so copied them with sudo cp and they were then owned by root and unaccessible to when the installer was run with wine ./Installer.exe.

    Hope this helps someone... Certainly saved me a couple days of downloading.

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