Wow error. need some help:)

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#1

Hey, so im running opensuse and im trying to install world of warcraft with wine. ive gotten it installed and everything, but when i try to lunch it i get a error that says:
There was an error launching this application.
Details: Failed to change to directory ‘/home/simon/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/’ (Permission denied)

Anybody know where i get that permission?

Simon.

#2

Please paste the command what gives you this error message.

#3

env WINEPREFIX="/home/simon/.wine" wine “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe”

#4

In the directory where Wow is installed (for me it is: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/)
execute the following command:


chmod +x World\ of\ Warcraft/ -R

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#5

hmm, dont seam do the the trick, it gives me the respond:

chmod: cannot access `World of Warcraft/’: No such file or directory

#6

Please post here the path of your Wow.exe file.

#7

C: \Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe

#8

but for some reason i cant find that… only been a suse for 24hour so i havnt gotten the hang on navigating around files

#9

Ooookay.
Do this:


cd ~/.wine/
find -name Wow.exe

and post the output.

ps.: you posted me a windows-style path read here about unix pathes: Path (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

#10

that just made more sense with some wiki :slight_smile: thank you.

But with the command i get a

find: `./drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft’: Permission denied

respond

#11

First:


cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/

and then execute the command what I gave you in my 2nd post:


chmod +x World\ of\ Warcraft/ -R

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ps.: make sure that you are executing the same commands! Copy them and paste into the terminal with CTRL+SHIFT+V.

#12

Well i got this respond:
chmod: cannot read directory `World of Warcraft/’: Permission denied

but now when i try to open via the app icon i get a new messege, and not a error. new messege is:
The blizzard launcher must be in the same folder as a blizzard game.

#13

Did you install while you were root?

Check the ownership.

From CL ls -l

Or you can open a browser and set view to show hidden (in Linux files that start with a period are normally hidden)
Navigate to the WOW directory you found above and right click select properties and see who owns the file (permissions tab)

#14

I hope you are logged in as normal users and not as root.
How you installed WoW?
What is the output of this:


ls -ld ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/

?

#15

that helped with the hidden, didnt know that :slight_smile:

so i found the folder finaly :slight_smile:
setted the permission to myself. and now i can open the wow launcher, but when i try to open the exe file it get this error:

7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs)

Error: /home/simon/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe is not file

Errors: 1

when i right click and try to open with wine browser i get a load time and then nothing.

#16

output of the code:
d—r-x— 6 simon users 4096 2010-02-28 15:35 /home/simon/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/

i installed the wine program first, then i got the windows instal file down from the net, and open it in wine browser, and then it did rest auto.

#17

You can’t execute the Wow.exe file directly type wine before.
Change the permissions on your World of Warcraft folder.


chmod 777 World\ of\ Warcraft/ -R

and start Wow.exe with


wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"

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Next time before starting to cook up something like wow installation |2ead some guide first:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine,
this will save you a lot of time.