cd /home/panda/desktop/wow_install [enter] wine installer.exe [enter]
The first command moves you into the WoW directory. The second command starts wine, targetting the installer.
If you wanted them on one line, it would be cd /home/panda/desktop/wow_install && wine installer.exe which means "run command #1, then command #2" and lets you do it in just one command.
It's case sensitive - doesn't Desktop have a capital D in ubuntu?
If that doesn't help immediately, try this. Type "cd /home/panda". Your prompt should change to have a little "~" in it.
Type "ls". Press Enter. You're looking for either "Desktop" or "desktop".
If it's lowercase, type "cd desktop" and press enter. If it's uppercase, type "cd Desktop" and press enter. Your prompt should now say "~/Desktop"
Type "ls" and press Enter again. You're looking, this time, for the WoW installation directory. Type "cd [DIRECTORY]" - and it has to be exactly right, case is sensitive. Then press Enter.
Finally, type "wine installer.exe" and press enter.
As a handy tip: at any time, you can type *part* of a directory name, hit Tab, and it will try to fill in the rest of the name. If it does nothing, that means there's either no possibilities or many possibilities. Press Tab again and it will show you all the possibilities, and you can fill in more of the name until you've removed all ambiguity. Try it out, it's very neat.
If you're using the newest Ubuntu (7.10), or an official package on Edgy, it probably binds Wine to the file manager. You should be able to double-click on the installer and have Wine run it.
As a warning, Wine stores its files in /home/user/.wine/c_drive . Since WoW is really big, make sure you have enough space in your home directory for it.
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cd /home/panda/desktop/wow_install [enter]
wine installer.exe [enter]
The first command moves you into the WoW directory.
The second command starts wine, targetting the installer.
If you wanted them on one line, it would be
cd /home/panda/desktop/wow_install && wine installer.exe
which means "run command #1, then command #2" and lets you do it in just one command.
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If that doesn't help immediately, try this. Type "cd /home/panda". Your prompt should change to have a little "~" in it.
Type "ls". Press Enter. You're looking for either "Desktop" or "desktop".
If it's lowercase, type "cd desktop" and press enter. If it's uppercase, type "cd Desktop" and press enter. Your prompt should now say "~/Desktop"
Type "ls" and press Enter again. You're looking, this time, for the WoW installation directory. Type "cd [DIRECTORY]" - and it has to be exactly right, case is sensitive. Then press Enter.
Finally, type "wine installer.exe" and press enter.
As a handy tip: at any time, you can type *part* of a directory name, hit Tab, and it will try to fill in the rest of the name. If it does nothing, that means there's either no possibilities or many possibilities. Press Tab again and it will show you all the possibilities, and you can fill in more of the name until you've removed all ambiguity. Try it out, it's very neat.
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As a warning, Wine stores its files in /home/user/.wine/c_drive . Since WoW is really big, make sure you have enough space in your home directory for it.
Good luck!
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The newest is Gutsy, 7.10, released in October 2007.
(Ubuntu release numbers are the year and month they came out.)
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