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How To install Neverwinter Nights on Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the much-time dept.

Joe Barr writes " As soon as I saw the news that BioWare released a beta of a Linux client for its popular and successful Neverwinter Nights title, I downloaded the beta (registration required) and went shopping for the prerequisite retail Windows version of the game. Before I proceed, let me offer this brief warning: Neverwinter Nights is the mother of all timesinks. Do not follow my path unless you have nothing important you want to get done for the next week or so."

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  1. Timesink is right by Winterblink · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is very true. Even if you're not a D&D type guy (and really, who on /. isn't), the game will eat away at all available free time you might have. Couple that with the near-infinite replayability of the thing and you've got something worth getting (even if you gotta buy the Windows CD for the data).

    A quick check of the NWN modules section on Bioware's site shows over 2000 player created ones. Carry on then. I don't anticipate I will be seeing you around here much from now on. :)

    --
    "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
    -Hoban Washburn
  2. Re:Really? by boola-boola · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...in related news, Gentoo now has an ebuild for NWN, though you will have to manually unmask it to install. :-)

    /* end shameless plug */

  3. Not an April Fools Joke! by Colin+Walsh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately this had to be posted today of all days...

    Anyways, the Linux Client really exists (you can even check the packets coming from Bioware, the 'evil bit' is set to 0! :) and the game is a blast. It's also good to see that news of the installer is getting out, as there are many people who don't know about it.

    -Colin

  4. Strait to the point by dark-br · · Score: 3, Informative

    As the article fails miserably to do that...

    Where to download the Linux NWN instaler:

    Here or here or here.

    MD5SUM for the files: b72d9ec2b9c43e7e3cd39bec22afbe7c

    You will need to download these extra file to play in your language:

    French
    German
    Italian
    Spanish

    Unzip into your nwn directory and move the files to their correct case. ie.

    mv dialog.TLK dialog.tlk
    mv dialogF.TLK dialogf.tlk

    Notes:

    This installs the 1.29 English version by default. See above to play in your language.
    The beta2 binaries are included.

    CDROM Mount Point

    If your cdrom mount point is not listed below, you will have to set an environment variable first.
    These are the mount points: /mnt /mnt/cdrecorder /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd /media/cdrecorder /media/cdrom /media/dvd

    If your mount point is not listed here, before you run the installer, from a shell, type export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/cdrom/mountpoint.
    Replace /path/to/cdrom/mountpoint with where your cdrom gets mounted.

    Temp Directory

    This installer uses close to 1GB of space in /tmp during installation.
    If you have limited space in /tmp, change your temp directory to somewhere where you have more than 1GB free.
    eg. from a shell, type export TMPDIR=/home//

    If any of these apply to you, do them otherwise Neverwinter Nights will not install.
    If any of these do not apply to you, then you can just run the installer.