[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

Found a thread on linuxmint.com on how to install WINE on Mint 19.3 by installing the WINE installer and running that. I issued the command in the terminal and that failed.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine-installer : Depends: winehq-stable but it is not going to be installed or
                           winehq-devel but it is not going to be installed or
                           winehq-staging but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So yeah. Not sure what I did wrong, but no idea how to fix.

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

2 minutes ago, ColdZero said:

 Did you do an update + upgrade before running that command?

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.

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

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?

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

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?

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

26 minutes ago, ColdZero said:

Now you should have both of those installed. Lutris may say something about how they've moved to lutris-stable, but that should be updated soon automatically.

 

Anyways, now you just need to either install it the old way, or follow along with my guide and see if you can get it running!

 

You've already gotten the steps done where you need Wine installed, now you just need to grab Island Rum and follow along with the guide! Let me know if you have any other issues!

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?

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

On 7/9/2020 at 5:00 PM, ColdZero said:

 

Let me know when you can try out the Lutris thing, and let me know if it fixes the issue for you! If It does, I'll rewrite the old guide and tack it back onto here.

 

That link SHOULD help you get W7 to show back up, and if not, good luck with the IRC group! Anytime, and good luck!

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?

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

40 minutes ago, ColdZero said:

For your Lutris question, here's something I wrote out for you. Also, with your inability to see your W7 installation, I will also leave you a link to fix GRUB, as that's typically the issue when you're unable to see your Windows installation anymore. If you accidentally wiped Windows, then there's no way to fix that. If instead you chose "Install alongside Windows Bootloader", then the link I've given you should suffice.

 

 

Don't worry! I'll keep trying until I figure something out!

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!

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

11 minutes ago, ColdZero said:

You're the second user to say that they're having issues with Linux Mint 20.04. I'm beginning to wonder if it's something on their side, as I also had issues with my script and had to re-write a good bit of it, just to make it work specifically for LM 20.04.

 

For now, I'd suggest reverting back to LM 19.3, or swapping to Ubuntu (I know), or even Debian itself / Fedora, until I can finally figure this issue out. Strangely enough, doing it myself, I never encountered any issues... so I honestly am at a loss as to why it's not working, and so I'm continually trying to reproduce these errors.

 

What specs do you have? GPU / CPU is mainly what I need. One fix I had was where the game wouldn't open, and that was due to me being on Intel and leaving my iGPU (Integrated Graphics) on. I had to disable it in the Bios, and then I was able to play.

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!

[How to get City of Heroes running on Linux]

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?