[Wine] Getting League of Legends to work on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit

[Martin Gregorie]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:29 -0600, DCarrollUSMC wrote:
> running wine --version confirms that I have wine 1.2.2
> 
> being honest though I don't know what Fedora is or what a yum upgrade
> is.
>
OT comment, but Fedora is RedHat's free distro and yum is its package
manager. 

There are two main Linux flavours: RedHat and Debian, with most of the
other distros being branches from this pair. These two families go about
some things in rather different ways and use different configuration
tools and package managers. Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. 

What this discussion has shown is that Ubuntu is dragging its feet over
updating its official wine package. I seen to remember hearing somebody
volunteer to maintain an up to date unofficial Ubuntu package but don't
recall where it was to be found. 

> As I said, I am a complete novice to Linux systems and really anything
> outside of GUI control of a computer.
>
Learning about command line usage is a good idea if you're serious about
using Linux. Not understanding it restricts you to just using the stuff
that somebody else has pre-canned and put behind icons and menus. That
may have been fine for them but is possibly not quite what what you want
to do. Understanding the command line lets you combine standard programs
in ways that do exactly what you want and then to write a script (which
you can even attach an icon to) that calls command line programs to do
exactly what you wanted.
 
> Do I need a different version of wine for running League of Legends on
> my machine?
> 
Look at the League of Legends entry in the AppDB at www.winehq.com to
see how well it works and what's needed to make it run. Researching
anything you don't know about Wine in the Wiki before asking here will
make life easier for all of us and may get you an answer quicker as
well. 

Similarly, use the Ubuntu forums and/or buy a Linux book to answer Linux
questions rather than asking here. I hear 'Linux for Dummies' is good,
though if you're a power user of another OS 'Linux in a Nutshell' might
be more to your taste.  

Martin