How to Play Half-Life 2 on Ubuntu 7.10

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.
Posted in Linux
February 5th, 2008 at 8:43 am
The most awesome game on the most awesome platform, great tutorial, I had no idea it was even possible