Ubuntu 8.04, VMWare Server, Wine and Warcraft, DVD Playback

I installed the latest Ubuntu (8.04) last weekend and have been playing around with it a bit this week. Wow, is it nice! It is noticeably quicker than my 7.10 install. Of course, I did a complete wipe and reinstall, so that probably has something to do with the speed.

I installed VMWare Server as soon as the operating system was up and running. Of course, you will need to do a few minor housekeeping items before it will work. Here is the link to a process that was successful for me.

Next up was to get Wine installed so that I could feed my World of Warcraft addiction. However, I am on a three week withdrawal right now. Wish me luck… If only there was a patch for this addiction. Follow the instructions above to install Wine. You’ll get the most recent version instead of what is in the repositories. After that was installed, I just copied over my WoW directory and changed a couple of settings, and it was up and running.

Adding DVD playback, courtesy of Lifehacker, is as easy as two command lines:

sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

~ by Sumo on May 1, 2008.