How to install Counterstrike on my Linux Box

gudentach12

Hi, i have a Problem. Im not very experienced in linux...
I want to play Counterstrike. Now i want to know if anybody can tell me, how to install it. Do i have to copy my Window Installation or can i install it somehow in Linux.
Can please somebody tell me how it works.

Thanks.

squanto · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject:

Maybe check out this site: Linux Half-Life
That is the guide that I followed when I first learned how to install it.

-Andrew

grinch · Apprentice Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 151

Depends on if you want to go with the retail version of WineX, use the CVS WineX, or use Wine.

* If you want to use the CVS version of WineX it's as simple as emerge WineX (emerges a
CVS snapshot does not download the latest version from CVS).
* And then there are some small config settings in ~/.winex/config (basically tell it where you mount your cdrom drive to)
* And then you simply just type winex /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe and install it just like windows would.

There are other setting if you want to put the 'fake_windows' drive somewhere else and stuff but what is above is a pretty quick and easy way to get it running. You'll have to install patches but its the same deal 'winex /directory/patchfile.exe' and if you have problems with running hl.exe try 'winex --winver win98 -- hl.exe -console'

As far as WineX retail/Wine installs go, the other methods are basically the same but will involve installing WineX/Wine in a different way obviously. I personally haven't tried Wine yet but I hear it runs HL better than WineX so I probably will eventually.
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squanto · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 3:56 am Post subject:

I have never gotten winex to work well, so I stuck to just plain jane wine in my CS days.

Sastraxi · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 258

WineX segfaults whenever I try to emulate D3D =(... I think i'm going to go with plain old Wine if it doesn't have the same incompatibility with the ati-drivers.