How to Play Half-Life 2 on Ubuntu 7.10

January 25th, 2008 by jason

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I have slapped together a tutorial on how to get Half-life 2 to run on your Ubuntu 7.10 installation using Wine.
Requirements:

  • A computer that meets the minimum requirements for Half-life 2
  • A legal copy of ‘The Orange Box’
  • A working internet connection



1. Copy The orange box discs to onto your hard drive.

Create a folder in your Home directory, and copy each disc of The Orange Box into this folder.

2. Install/configure Wine.

If you need Wine follow the following steps:

In Terminal run the following commands:

  • wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
  • sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/…t.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
  • sudo apt-get update

Then in your GUI navigate to Applications -> Add/Remove and select “all available applications” in the top right of the window. Search for Wine and install it.

Press alt+F2 and paste: wine iexplore http://appdb.winehq.com/

When prompted click install to install internet explorer.

Search google for the tahoma.tff font. Download it and copy it to /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts

2. Install The Orange Box

Open the folder in your home directory where you copied the orange box files. And double click setup.exe

Then follow the installer wizard.

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One Comment

  1. Matthew Vorster

    The most awesome game on the most awesome platform, great tutorial, I had no idea it was even possible

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