Play Counterstrike in ubuntu with wine
If you are a CS fan,you may want to play CS in ubuntu if you also enjoy operating in ubuntu.This tutorial will tell you how to install Counter Strike on ubuntu.
1)First,you need to install wine by Add/Remove Applications (Applications–>Add/Remove…) and type wine in search field to find it.or you can get it from following link for free:
Another way,command line for installing wine:
1.Add the repository’s key to your system’s list of apt keys by copy following to a terminal window(Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal)
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
2.then,add the repository:
For ubuntu 9.04
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
For ubuntu 8.10
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
For ubuntu 8.04
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
3.at last execute following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
winecfg
the last command will create .wine file folder and go to wine configuration.
2)After wine installed,download Tahoma.ttf from here:http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/t/Tahoma.ttf
then,in a terminal window locate to the file and execute following command :
cp Tahoma.ttf /home/user-name/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts
where “user-name” is your ubuntu user name.
3)Download steaminstall.exe:http://halflife2.filefront.com/files/Half-Life/Official_Releases/Steam%3B2934,install it by command:
wine steaminstall.exe
type the file name you downloaded instead of “steaminstall.exe”
4)Type following to launch steam:
WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine steam.exe
Tips:
You can also install and play CS with PlayOnLinux(GUI tool) in Ubuntu Linux
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Reader Comments
i am able to run cs up to
new game > select a map: random > starting server…> a transparant window with a map in back ground, with text “counter strike” and “ok” button at the bottom.
i cant click that “ok” button.
game stucks there and i have to forcefully poweroff my laptop to start again.
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ranger Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 7:19 am
i don’t hav solution of this but u may Alt+ctrl+del to get it log off . or kill that process. and anyone has solution plz post..
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ok it says files not found whenever i try any of theese can you put up a vdieo tutorial on youtube?
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there is no command for ubuntu 9.10 given here. please tell me its process also.
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