We also need a few small programs to decompress files from the DVD: unshield and cabextract.
But really, if you’re using a machine that can run a full-blown Ubuntu installation, speed at the console probably isn’t a big concern for you. This isn’t a permanent change in fact, if you’re concerned about speed at the command line, you can switch it back when we’re done here. Very quickly, we can reconfigure the shell to point back at bash: sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash.Īt this screen, answer No. If you try to start the script as things are now, you’ll end up with a lot of scrambled crud on your screen, and not much in the way of progress. By default Ubuntu uses dash as a shell, but the script relies on bash to run properly. If you do download them yourself (which will probably be faster), dump everything into your home directory and decompress the script.īefore you can run it though, we need to make a little adjustment. The 1.69 client is something like 480Mb anyway, so downloading it once is probably enough. I keep them on an external drive along with an ISO of my DVD, just to speed things up. The script will download those files for you if you like. I own the Platinum DVD, and aside from that you need four more files: version 1.69 of the English client for Linux (or the language you prefer), version 1.29 of the Linux client binaries, the Hordes of the Underdark client pack version 1.61, and the aforementioned script. (I’ll be honest up front and say I never bother with the movies, so I don’t have any advice for you there.) That thread is almost four years old now though, so it might be worth revisiting how to get it going.
Installing the Platinum or Diamond version from DVD can sometimes be a trick, although there is a dusty old howto on the Ubuntu Forums that offers an easy-as-pie script that will do the dirty work for you. I am sure the graphics are better now, but for depth of play, flexibility and your ability to customize the game, NWN is still at the top for me … and has been for a while, as you can see. In my humble and rather uninformed opinion, NWN is still one of the best games out there in the RPG bracket, although I don’t follow the curve of high-end games much any more. With a new computer in the house I have taken a few brief passes at some of my favorite games, to include things like Warzone 2100, Gridwars and Neverwinter Nights. I don’t usually have much time to play games, unless you count Stone Soup, which is not one of those games that is overwhelmingly popular these days.
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