![]() Once logged in, you’ll get access to the download link. I’ll leave out the details and just assume you have an account. This step requires having or creating a Star Stable account. Open a browser and got to the Star stable register page to initiate a download of the Star Stable executable. Step 4: Download Star Stable Installation program Once installed, we’re going to open Play On Linux and add support for the latest version of Wine: Manage Wine versions (click to enlarge)Īnd add the latest Wine version, at the time of writing this 1.7.55 by high lighting it and clicking the right arrow button: Select the latest stable version (not “staging”)Īfter clicking the right arrow button, a Wizard will start that guides you through the install process. If so, install it using the Package manager on your computer (in our case, the Ubuntu Software Center) Step 3: Add support for Wine 1.7.55 Step 2: Install WINEĭuring the installation of Play on Linux, it’s quite possible that it will complain about not finding Wine on your computer. As we were running Ubuntu 15.10, we selected the appropriate Ubuntu deb package. Go to the Play On Linux home page and download the version for your Linux distribution. It’s a nice graphical tool that allows you to manage several Wine environments in parallel. Lately, I’ve found that the Play on Linux project is an excellent way to manage Wine. But I hoped that it could potentially work using Wine. Star stables own web page claims that the game only runs under Windows and Mac. But today, she really wanted to get Star stable working and that turned out to be a little bit more challenging even though the final solution was pretty straight forward. ![]() Minecraft just works as is and Garrys Mod and Terraria was easy enough to set up in the Steam environment. And the overall impression was that the entire laptop was a lot quicker than it was running Windows 8.Įverytime she asked for help installing something, I was a little scared that we’d find out that the particular game she was interested in would not run under Linux, but so far we’ve been lucky. ![]() Her first reaction after getting familiar with the new desktop environment (Gnome 3), she reported back that Minecraft had never run as smoothly on her laptop before. We were at a point where I realized that getting her computer clean again would consume more time than to do a complete Windows reinstall, only to risk that we’d be back in the same situation a few months later. Clicking whatever links and buttons she thought would get her games working the fastest possible way, hardly realizing that she gradually filled her Windows installation with numerous of Trojans, viruses and other malware. ![]() Over the 18 months she had it, she had been installing all kinds of crap software. A few weeks ago I was helping my daughter (12 years old) with some problems on her Windows 8 laptop. Games on Ubuntu LinuxĪnd now for something completely different. If you follow the guide below and get weird error messages in the Play-on-Linux debug log, try the two commands above and give it another try. $ sudo apt-get install libldap-2.4-2:i386 In order to make Starstable work, I had to install two additional packages from the command prompt: $ sudo apt-get install winbind I’ve recently reinstalled this on a fresh Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 64bit. Use Play On Linux if you want to avoid too much Wine configuration details. TLDR Star Stable works fine under Wine 1.7.55.
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