A couple months ago i ran into the problem of trying to run EPW on a Linux Ubuntu machine and i figured out it just yesterday. So i decided to write a guide on how i got it to work on Linux Ubuntu. I hope this will help others that are on the various Ubuntu based systems.
Step 1: Open Terminal
the first thing you need is to open Terminal. To do so just press Ctrl + Alt + T on your keyboard and this screen should pop up like this.
Step 2: Wine
Next we need to do is to download the Wine compatibility loader for Ubuntu. Wine is an amazing program that will run windows programs inside of Linux. To do so you need to put this in the purple and white window.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
then press enter and enter your login password to continue. then press enter again
Then update APT package information by copying this into your Terminal screen sudo apt-get update
When it finishes You can now install Wine by typing sudo apt-get install wine1.6 into the Terminal screen
then hit y to say yes to install it.
Step 3: Winetricks
Now that Wine is done installing we need to run winetricks to set up Wine.
In our terminal screen we are going to type winetricks and press enter.
A screen will pop up asking to choose a wineprefix.
Select Default the Wine prefix option and press ok.
Another screen will pop up asking What would you like to do to this wineprefix?
Select Install a Windows DLL or component option and press ok.
a screen will pop up asking Which package(s) would you like to install ?
Select d3dx10, d3dx11_42, d3dx11_43, all of the d3dx9's, d3dxof, devenum, dinput, dinput8, dirac, directmusic, directplay, directx9, dmsynth, dotnet20, dotnet30, dotnet40, dxdiag, dxdiagn, ffdshow, vb2run, vb3run, vb4run, vb5run, vbrun6run, vcrun2003, vcrun2008, vcrun2010, vcrun6, vcrun6sp2, and vjrun20.
this process will take some time as it downloads the files and installs them correctly..
Step 4: Internet Explorer 7
After all of that is installed into Wine we need ie7 from the windows homepage.
the link is here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/internet-explorer-7-details.aspxit will say that "Internet Explorer 7 is not compatible with your system."
Ignore that warning and select the top one for Windows xp and press next then download.
the download is fairly small so it should be fast to complete.
now run the installer and Wine will run the installer should take a few minutes.
Step 5: EPW
After you have done that open your epw folder and update it and enjoy the game =)
