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This is extremely strange. I'm sitting here running a VM for LM 19.3, and I'll be testing it out myself in a minute to see if I can reproduce that error. Update: So, I just ran the command I had given you inside a fresh install of LM 19.3, and it completed successfully. I think your Linux Mint installation had an error while installing originally, as I also encountered one before, and had to re-wipe my USB and put LM 19.3 back onto it in order for the installation to complete without missing packages. What tool did you use to put Linux Mint onto a USB, or a CD, if you had used one? The one I use all the time is Rufus if I am on Windows. I'm currently searching if there's a way to fix that issue. Edit: Can you please give me what the output of this command, is? Thanks in advance! lsb_release -c

You can reboot after you purge, if you'd like to, but it's not typically needed

I'm sorry that you're having issues. Some scanners / printers work, and some don't, but I've never used any of them for Linux. If you can, please purge WINE with the command that I listed earlier, and try running my custom command that I personally use for 19.3 sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' -y && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport -y && sudo apt-get update && wget -O- -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add - && echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04 ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wine-obs.list && sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable -y But, before you do that: Purge WINE, then do an update, and THEN run that command.

That's quite strange as to why it's pumping out an experimental build for the package... Here, remove WINE completely by doing this: sudo apt remove wine-stable --purge -y Then, try installing it through the GUI that you mentioned earlier (Software Manager), and see if the error is reproduced. Did you do an update + upgrade before running that command? sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y If not, purge WINE first, then run the update / upgrade command, and THEN try doing it again. If the error persists, re-purge it, and try to use the Package Manager.

Exactly! Lutris and Island Rum are launches to play games, whereas Lutris is a global launcher (like Steam and its many games), while Island Rum is specifically tailored for City of Heroes. No need to bypass any authentication servers, as they've been down for so long, and the Source-Code was leaked a year+ ago, so there's no real need to do any bypassing. Yes, you're mistaken, which is okay! They're both just game launchers. Lutris is like Steam, where you can add 'Non-Steam Games" to your library, and run them, whereas Island Rum was made specifically to run City of Heroes without any true hassle.

Personally, I prefer using CLI, so that's why I use the Terminal all the time, and my commands are for the Terminal, but typically you're guaranteed to get more "up-to-date" packages if done by CLI, than if you were to use a GUI package manager, but then again it really depends on which GUI Package Manager you use. Yes, you should copy over CoH to your Linux folder; The only reason why you'd access your Windows drive to run CoH on Linux, is mainly for screenshots + outfits to be synchronized, but honestly you can just copy those over, or you'll always have to make sure that your Windows drive is mounted BEFORE you run CoH, as you'll run into errors where it says that the game directory doesn't exist, and then you just have to open it up in your file-manager to auto-mount the drive. It's do-able, but you can give yourself a headache if you forget to mount it and wonder why it isn't working anymore. You seem to be confused at to what WINE actually does, so let me explain it for you real quick! WINE itself stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator", but think of it as the execution layer for the programs. Yes, you can specifically, manually, run games via CLI with WINE, but it's much easier to use a program to run games on WINE, such as Lutris. So, you should instead think of "I'm using Lutris to run CoH, but it's using WINE as an execution layer". Well, that's how I would, but someone could correct me if I'm wrong! Honestly, you should try using Island Rum, as it's mainly designed for CoH usage, but if you'd prefer to use Lutris, that's fine as well! Just make sure that when you're setting up CoH: HC in Lutris, to not use some "Automatically set up CoH in Lutris" tool, as those could be out of date and just ruin your setup. Let me know if you're going to be using Island Rum, and if not, I can quickly write out how to set this up for Lutris.

Well, my instructions now consist of just going to the Wine website, and following the list of commands to grab. For you, it will be this set of commands to run inside your Terminal, but first, make sure to update your installation. sudo apt update -y The instructions for Wine that you, specifically, will use, are as followed: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable -y Now, another way of doing this instead of copy-pasting it all manually, you can just add the && operator in between each commands, which looks like this: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable -y For you to obtain Lutris, we'll do it through the Terminal again, with the instructions from their website. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install lutris -y 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!

Happy to help! Sorry it took 7h for someone to respond to you. Enjoy the game! :D

The correct Manifest for CoH: HC is this: http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml Try changing your manifest to that, if you're trying to connect to the Homecoming servers.

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!

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!

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.

Apologies, as I've been busy hanging out with friends a lot more recently, and I haven't been able to respond quickly. For some reason I am unable to watch the files you've uploaded, so I can't seem to figure it out that way. (Edit: If you can, upload it as a private video and post the link here, or DM me the link if you'd prefer it that way!) Are you using your own files, or the ones that I've hosted on Mega? If you want, you can download my copy (it needs to be updated), that comes completely clean. You will need to copy over your saves / screenshots, though, if you want to keep them. If Lutris and Wine work already, and you're able to play games on them, then the fault comes with CoH itself. Try grabbing my copy of it, and let me know how it turns out! All my script did was determine your flavor / version of Linux that you're using, properly install wine-stable for it, and then install Lutris, so there's nothing truly fancy with it besides that. I'm actually really curious as to why yours won't boot up, so, keep me posted please! I'll keep trying to help you as much as I can!

Give me a few minutes to install Linux Mint 20.04 with Cinnamon, and I'll give it a shot myself! #Edit: I got it to run without any issues after modifying my script to detect Ulyana (Linux Mint 20.04), and didn't have that issue. I do believe it's because it's coming up with -tequila.exe at the end of the error, when it should just say tequila.exe. See if you've accidentally renamed it? Also, try out the except down below, as it should work without any issues, and you won't be using Tequila, instead you'll be using Island Rum. I don't know if you copy-pasted that message, but at the end it says /CoH/-tequila.exe, which would be the wrong program, as it has a - infront of tequila.exe, which I'm sure you noticed. I've been needing to update the guide, but due to current conditions, I've been extremely busy lately, but I'll go ahead and guide you towards a website that has Island Rum pre-built already for Linux. This should get you up and running, and will be the de-facto way to install+run CoH as long as it's supported by the maintainers. Here's my excerpt from another post: This is where this except is coming from, if you want to read all of it. Try giving that a shot while I diagnose your issue on Cinnamon! Best of luck to you!

I'm glad I could help you out! I tried my best with explaining everything clearly for newer Linux users. I've been meaning to slightly update it, but I've been so busy lately, that I haven't had time to do it hahaha. I'll definitely get on it, though. Best of luck with finding them!

Yeah, you're not wrong, and I knew that going into that response hahaha. I know it's truly not possible unless someone takes quite a bit of time out of their life in order to re-write, and re-compile the code.

You are entirely correct. I was thinking of seeing if I could add it as a different version of the guide, as in they could either try it the way I've been doing it, or do it that way. To be completely honest, I'd prefer the Island Rum way if I was new and coming into this on Linux. I don't have a lot of time nowadays, and will be gone for quite a while in a few weeks, so I'll do my best to make both accessible. I really thank you for quoting my post in this, as I'm able to learn about a newer way of doing this that will dramatically help out others. I will gladly credit you, for pointing it out, and the Author of Island Rum + that website, when I finish it. :D

In all honesty, you shouldn't have any issues with my guide. All that's needed to be done, is to clone into the script, give it executable permissions, and run it. It installs the latest version of both Wine and Lutris for your flavor of Linux (if it's supported). The only things you need to do, is to copy over CoH (or download it), open Lutris, and just point Lutris to Tequila. This will automatically run the 64-bit version of the game with (hopefully, don't know what your specs are) no performance issues. My guide assumes that you already have a copy of CoH, but provides a downloadable link to one. I checked out the guide you linked, and they just have Island Rum download + install the game, which, you are correct, is dramatically easier to do. I didn't know that this guide existed at the time, otherwise I'd've just pointed to that instead. I appreciate you linking to my guide here, as I wouldn't've known about it before hahahaha. The only reason why I use Lutris, is that it both provides a nice UI for people who want to add other Windows games, and allows us to use custom commands / Kernel options for our games so that they can either run better, or change their resolution (or whatever you honestly want to do); All they'd have to do (hopefully), is just add a new game to Lutris and point to the .exe. In the end, you're entirely correct. The Island Rum launcher is dramatically easier, and should be the de-facto way to go forward from now on. If you'd like, I can re-write my entire guide so that it just points to the website, or I can add it as either the primary, or secondary, option. I went ahead and downloaded the Linux launcher for Island Rum that's located on that website, and it works flawlessly, mind you I already have wine pre-installed. I can go ahead and teach you how to set this version up for CoH, as it's pretty simple. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, we're going to need to have 3 things already for this process to be simplified. These three things are as followed: A copy of City of Heroes already, one that we have ourselves that we can simply copy over, or the one downloaded from the link in my guide. Wine to already be installed. If you don't have it, you can easily install it yourself by following the guide here VIA the official WineHQ website for your current flavor of Linux. A copy of the Linux version of Island Rum. Now, with those 3 things out of the way, we need to extract islandrum-linux.zip that we've just donloaded; This can easily be done by locating the file in your ~/Downloads folder, right clicking it, and clicking "Extract Here". Once this is done, we'll need to go inside the folders (islandrum-linux / Island Rum), and then we'll find Island Rum.x86_64. The next step is to either right click it and click on "Run", or double-click; If we're doing this in the Terminal like I did, we just need to cd all the way to where we are, and type ./Island\ Rum.x86_64. Now, we can either let this fully download and install the game ourselves, or, if we already have the game downloaded / a copy of it ourselves, we can just point to our new path and Island Rum will detect the change in location and just patch it. To do this, click on the little Palm-Tree in the upper left, and a drop-down menu will appear. From here we just go down to Options, and where it says "Install Path" and has a white text-box, click inside the box to change the path. What we want to do is locate our CoH folder that we've downloaded / already have, and then we click the floppy-disk / save icon in the bottom right. Once completed, Island Rum will populate with the new location, and should download some updates. Once that's done, click on the big right-arrow at the Bottom Right, download some Mono files that are needed (this has to be done, so just click on "Install" until it's over), and CoH 64-bit should start right away! If you have any issues / want some guidance, let me know and I'll try my best to help you! Also, to @WanderingAries , I will heavily consider doing it later today / tonight, as this is a much simpler way of doing it. Appreciate you all!

As long as you can install both Wine and Lutris, and you're on an x86 / x86_64 platform, the game SHOULD be able to run. I see some guides to installing both Wine and Lutris on CentOS 8, so you can give it a shot and let me know! I'll see if I can do anything to make it work on my end, as I've never touched CentOS before.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB that I could ATTEMPT to get CoH running on, if you'd like. I know some people were playing WoW on their phones, but they were streaming it from their computers, to their phones, which is different. If you were able to get this running on your phone, you'd have to re-design the UI to make it playable.

Sorry for the very late responses, been quite busy lately, but that's awesome and amazing that it performs so well! I'm excited to see what all the new components can do in the future :D

That's awesome IronJoe! Were you able to get it running? How's the performance? I have my own Chromebook that I should try it on as well.

Best of luck to you! I got my own Chromebook as well, and you're tempting me to try it myself hahaha

Sorry for the very late response, but keep me informed on how it goes! I'm quite curious actually 😄

Low chance unless it has viable specs basically, so it really depends on the model of your Chomebook. If it has great specs / good specs, then give it a shot and let me know how it goes! I'm sorry I didn't respond in time, this website didn't notify me of your message.