Written by Tom Wickline

Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:40

From Collin Dahl Blog :

Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums, I stumble upon posts like: “Program X doesn’t work under ubuntu, I’m leaving”. As it turns out, some of these posts are for the Source games, mainly the multiplayer ones (Counter Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Deathmatch, Team Fortress 2). For that purpose I’m gonna make a short guide, just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.

First, get WINE (obviously). For best results, add the WINE PPAs. This allows you to use the latest WINE release:

Go to System>Administration>Software Sources. You will be prompted for a password.
Click on the “Third Party Software” tab
Add the appropriate PPA to this list by clicking on “Add”. The PPAs are according to your Ubuntu Version. If you are not sure which version you are using, go to System>About Ubuntu, and look at the second paragraph. It should say something like “Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron”. Anyway, here are the PPAs:

ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa (for 9.10)
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt jaunty main #WineHQ – Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” (for 9.04)
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main #WineHQ – Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” (for 8.10)
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt hardy main #WineHQ – Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” (for 8.04)

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Nice compedium of info here

Don 2009-12-10 01:19:50

G'day Tom,

Just stumbled across your efforts here - good work!

Cheers!

Don

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Tom Wickline 2009-12-10 02:46:16

Hello Don,

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you find the site informative and of use. I try to
post about everything related to Wine that I stumble upon.. Kind of a one stop Wine portal in a
sense.

Cheers,
Tom

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