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Old May 11th, 2008, 09:33 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Playing WOW on Ubuntu.

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to play WOW if I am running Ubuntu. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You

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Do you have to use a program like WINE to play WoW under Linux?

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http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=11329

Follow the instructions there and it should work ok.

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well i have wine i just cant seem to get WOW to load.

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Go to the Ubuntu Forums: www.ubuntuforums.org. They should be able to tell you if it can or can't be done.
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Sean, you are the man. i looked all over the web, thanks for the site
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