Awesomelag 0 Report post Posted April 20, 2017 I am not sure if this is in the wrong forum or not, and I couldn't find a forum for guides to dealing with software problems. This focuses on the .rar file type, and could be potentially applied to other .rar file archives. This is on Ubuntu 14.04, and so I am not sure if this would work on other versions of Ubuntu. On Ubuntu 14.04, I torrented the file from the main Elysium page Play Now. The file finished torrenting, and I decided to copy and paste from the file. It said there were errors with copying files such as WoWError.exe and WoW.exe. Naturally, I was frustrated. The installer without torrent that I knew of wasn't available. And, upon inspecting the original file archive, I realized the torrented file was a .rar file. So, I googled how I could extract the stuff in the archive. I am using Wine, but I am not sure if you could WinRAR on Ubuntu. So, what I did is I got the archive for Linux distributions using the following command line: Spoiler $ wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-5.3.b4.tar.gz When that was finished, I used the another command to actually allow me to use the unrar command in the terminal: Spoiler $ sudo apt-get install unrar Or the command Spoiler # apt-get install unrar Upon doing all of that, I then proceeded to try to extract the files. I failed once, extracting all the files without any folders. So, upon looking at the list of command modifiers for the unrar command, I found the following command worked: Spoiler $ unrar x /name_of_file_directory/"Name of rar archive.rar" The quotation marks are there because the terminal got upset when I had spaces in the file name without those quotation marks around the name of the file. Also, be aware of the fact that wherever the wget command put the file it got is where it will extract the files to. I would love to hear any tips you have to improve the code, especially since I am a beginner, and am doing this on Ubuntu 14.04 on a Chromebook. Which does work by the way. It is incredibly annoying to play anything on a Chromebook other than browser games, put possible. There is a guide available online for more information about the unrar command and installing it on this site, provided to want to know more. If there are any issues let me know, and I will try to figure it out. If there are any issues with this post, such as being in the incorrect forum, I will try to get it moved, or otherwise copy-and-pasted over to the proper forum (wherever it is). Also, if there is enough people who want to know how to play World of Warcraft and other games that can be run on Linux, I might consider making a guide if there isn't one already. If you guys would like screenshots, I would more than happily replicate the process and take some, just let me know. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
khalismur 6 Report post Posted April 21, 2017 3 hours ago, Awesomelag said: f there is enough people who want to know how to play World of Warcraft and other games that can be run on Linux, I might consider making a guide if there isn't one already There are already many guides, a simple google search will point you in their direction and also will help you solve the problem you are having. I doubt you need to install extra software to extract a rar file, most Linux distros come with one. For tips regarding WoW under wine, see the arch wiki. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Awesomelag 0 Report post Posted April 21, 2017 Alrighty. I just wanted to post this in case anyone else had the problem. I couldn't find anything on the forums, and I am using Linux on a Chromebook, which means it didn't come with anything for rar files (Archive Mounter definitely wasn't working). I just thought posting a quick guide here could help anyone without such a thing already installed. Thanks for the reply though. My Linux knowledge is newbie at best, so I just resort to learning what I can from Google searches. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Euronymous 2 Report post Posted April 21, 2017 If you wanna avoid using clunky quotation marks around filepaths, you have to escape sequence the whitespaces like this: $ unrar x /name_of_file_directory/Name\ of\ rar\ archive.rar This allows bash to interpret the filename as a single argument passed to the flag, instead of using the space as a delimiter for subsequent arguments. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dequecojonesvais 2 Report post Posted April 21, 2017 If anyone can limit FPS to 64 in Linux just say it! under wine! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katahamaru 0 Report post Posted April 27, 2017 Hi! I have a problem extracting the file .rar that i've dowloaded. I've followed your guide and installed all the repository, but from command line it continue to give me I/O error. I've tried to download another time the file a lot of time, but nothing happens. This is the code error. Spoiler akamaru@Katon:/media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi$ rar x /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/WOW.rar /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi RAR 5.30 beta 2 Copyright (c) 1993-2015 Alexander Roshal 4 Aug 2015 Trial version Type RAR -? for help Extracting from /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/WOW.rar Creating /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12 OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/BackgroundDownloader.exe OK Creating /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/AccountBilling.url OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/backup.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/base.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/connection-help.html OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Credits.html OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/dbc.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/eula.html OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/fonts.MPQ OK Creating /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Interface OK Creating /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Interface/Cinematics OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Interface/Cinematics/Logo_1024.avi OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Interface/Cinematics/Logo_800.avi OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Interface/Cinematics/WOW_Intro_1024.avi OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/Interface/Cinematics/WOW_Intro_800.avi OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/interface.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/misc.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/model.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/patch-2.MPQ OK Extracting /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/World of Warcraft 1.12/Data/patch.MPQ 21% Errore di input/output Read error in the file /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/WOW.rar [R]etry, [A]bort R Errore di input/output Read error in the file /media/akamaru/Necronomicon/Programmi/WOW.rar [R]etry, [A]bort A 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
