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Yes, when I ran it first, it said there were 7 updated items. I went to Update Manager, updated through there, then ran the command again and it told me everything was then up-to-date before I ran the WINE commands.

I tried installing Wine per your commands. At some point (I didn't see what % complete it was), it appeared to dump out and said Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/...109-libsanel_1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Also, when I copy over City, where should I put it? In my Documents folder?

I'm slowly beginning to understand. At least in regards to WINE. From what you said, it sounded like I could either run City using Lutris OR Island Rum. I thought Island Rum was required to "bypass" the need for NCSoft's authentication servers. At the very least, I thought I would be using Lutris to run Island Rum (which, in turn, runs City). Am I mistaken?

Cool. Is there a reason why I should follow the commands above to install Wine rather than just install from Mint's Software Manager? Hey. I was thinking I needed to copy my City folder over -- I installed City on a separate drive from Windows. Should it be possible to somehow point either Wine or Lutris to that folder and use the same install for both Windows and Mint? Also, excuse my ignorance. Should I try to get City running just in Wine first and then try to incorporate Lutris?

Thanks again! I had some technical issues I needed to work out and have been gone for a few days. I eventually got my system to find Windows again by creating a boot disk for the boot repair program. It was able to write me a new MBR. After all those issues, and the fact that I was still very new to Linux, I decided to reformat my Linux drive and install Mint again, but 19.3 instead of 20. I figured 19.3 would be more stable and more things would work. The jury's still out on that theory. I haven't had a chance to dig into Lutris, yet. It's still a bit daunting with me knowing nothing about Linux. Also, since I haven't installed anything else, I couldn't even test it to see if it worked, then I've got (at least) 4 possible points of breakage (Lutris, Wine, Island Rum, CoH) and no idea how to troubleshoot. Now that I'm running 19.3, do you recommend going back and trying your instructions again, first?

Thanks, man! I know my W7 is still there. I can mount and view the partition and I can see all the folders are intact. I'm hopefully getting help from the Mint IRC group tomorrow on getting that sorted. I'll check out your GRUB link in the meantime. Thanks again!

Unfortunately, there's no reverting for me, as this was my first Linux install. Also, somehow during the process, both my bios and grub are refusing to see my prior Windows 7 installation and I can't figure out how to boot back into Win7. Even selecting the HD with Win7 during bootup doesn't work. I appreciate your efforts and hope a solution is soon forthcoming!

I could really use some hand-holding here. New to Linux and just installed Mint 20 yesterday. I followed instructions here and elsewhere on installing Wine and Island Rum. I had City on my Windows 7 partition and copied it over to my documents folder and installed Island Rum next to that. I ran Rum and pointed it to the CoH folder. It ran the manifest and says "Ready To Play". When I try to launch it says "Launching Homecoming (64-bit) for about 10 seconds, then reverts back to "Ready To Play". When I Re-Scan, it processes through all the files, so I'm almost positive I've pointed Rum to the right spot. I installed Lutris, but have no idea what I'm supposed to do there, or even if it should be pointing to City or Island Rum. Any ideas on what to try next?