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I have been toying and searching a lot lately on the net and with EVE itself, and i think i found the solution for it. That means, someone else already has found a working solution and I just reinvented the wheel (story of my life) and I am just reposting it and explaining it here.

(update : There is even an official bugreport and solution in the comments here. It’s not where i picked it up, but this whole story seems to be there as well. Thanks for providing me with a link Dan !)

For the record, I want to state again that the CrossOver project, which is the commercial frontend of Wine, and Wine itself are 2 amazing projects, and all i can say is that the coders, planners, executives, CEO etc, have my sincere respect. Up to now, things have worked flawlessly and I encourage anyone out there to just spend that little stash of coin on CrossOver. It’s a one time donation if you don’t want the support year after year and the money goes straight into the project, which is well worth it, and you buy yourself a whole lot of -ease of use- and manageability for it, plus timely and polite support that actually knows how to fix your problems. Ask any CrossOver user and they will tell you the same.

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I ran into some trouble with EVE running under plain Wine, meaning that i experienced some freak lockups of the game, of course usually in the heat of battle and not safely in a station. Can someone please shoot Murphy while we are at it ? Thank you !.

Anyway, since I recently (few hours ago actually) obtained a license to use Crossover Professional and Crossover Games, I thought i’d give it a swirl and see how the installing process of EVE goes in that. Looking at the whole installation process under plain Wine and the effort it took to get it running and working out all the quirks, I’m guessing that it can be a much more trivial task, but hey, let’s have a look at it shall we ? Read more

Well, after a week or so happily playing World of Warcraft it became time to give EVE a spin. Now as some of you might be aware of, EVE actually supports Linux. So getting this game to work on Linux is a very hopeful task. Or so you might think.

The way EVE supports Linux might not really appeal to you it involves Cedega. While Cedega is a fine solution for people that want to get robbed from their money so they can be lazy, I found that I better spend that coin on something else and run EVE in what Cedega was taken from : Wine.

Assuming you have Wine already installed (latest stable version of course), there is a few things you ought to know before diving in head-first : EVE uses Microsoft True Type Core Fonts. That said, it won’t work if you don’t have those on your Wine environment. So the first thing you need to do is fire up the Synaptic Package Manager and install the msttcorefonts package. This package contains the ttf core fonts from Microsoft that are free for distrubution and use. Read more