I have downloaded wine 1.6 from here: https://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu I then downloaded the pokerstars from here: http://www.pokerstars.net/poker/download/
Both downloads went fine (I think) but when I try to open the pokerstars client it connects and then just opens a small black box at the top left of my screen and that is it.
Does anybody have any ideas about what might be going wrong?
Thanks for any help
sudo apt-get install wine
should get you a Wine version that's been tested with Ubuntu, and you'll get updates and fixes automatically. Second, how exactly did you "Open the PokerStars client"? The first step is to runwine PokerStarsInstall.exe
; then only once installation was successful, you can actually run the client with Wine. I can at least tell you that in principle PokerStars is running great with Wine :)sudo apt-get remove wine1.6
(orwine1.7
, depending on which one you installed), thensudo apt-get autoremove
, thensudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
, thensudo apt-get update
. Not sure why you couldn't fine Wine in the Software Center, it's in the universe repository. Maybe you don't have universe enabled?apt-get
), and got a message that PokerStars was successfully installed? In that case, it should be in your Wine fake-C partition (or wherever you installed it). So then you would execute the client aswine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/PokerStars/pokerstars.exe
or similar (and there are probably all kinds of fancy GUIs that will do this for you, but there I'm not an expert). Or how do you launch the client, exactly?