Step-by-step tutorial for getting
league running flawlessly for all you knuckleheads.:
(DISCLAIMER: ARCHLINUX ONLY. I DON'T
KNOW HOW OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS HANDLE BUILDING FROM SOURCE. IF YOU CAN
GET YOUR DISTRO'S WINE SOURCE CODE, THESE INSTRUCTIONS SHOULD WORK FOR YOU
FROM THAT POINT ON. ALSO, I DO SOMETHING THAT IS CONSIDERED VERY BAD
PRACTICE, BECAUSE I'M LAZY. IF YOU NARC YOUR SYSTEM BECAUSE YOU ARE
SO DESPERATE TO GET LEAGUE RUNNING A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE FINE FOLKS
AT PLAYONLINUX HAND YOU A PAINLESS SOLUTION, I CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE.).
1. Get your wine source code.
Archlinux users:
Download the arch build system using
pacman -S abs, and subsequently run the "abs" command in
the terminal without quotations to populate /var/abs.
In the terminal, find the place where
your PKGBUILD file WINE exists. From here on in, I will refer to this
as /var/abs/multilib/wine, because this is where it is on my system.
We will use nano as our text editor of
choice, because that's what I use. Type:
sudo nano
/var/abs/multilib/wine/PKGBUILD
This will open the file with read/write
permissions. Scroll down the file until you find the line that starts
with:
source=(
And, after the url given ON THAT LINE,
INSIDE THE PARANTHESES, add a space, and type the following:
http://uz.sns.it/~ranma42/iLoL/0001-HACK-Disallow-block-based-textures-with-sub-block-si.patch
Then, on the line below (that starts
with md5sums), add the following md5 checksum IN THE SAME MANNER AS
THE OTHER TWO, NOT ON THE SAME LINE, AT THE END, INSIDE THE
PARENTHESES:
'49b2581a9b6e57df440f61c5a7b08a57'
This is the md5 checksum for the patch
file that will automatically download with the PKGBUILD file, and is
the same one that I used. PLEASE note that you are using this
patchfile at your own risk, and, even though it is the one that I
used myself, I cannot validate the authenticity of the patch file
and/or checksum. This kind of thing is inherently risky business.
Next, scroll down to find the following
2 lines:
# Allow ccache to work
mv $pkgname-$_pkgbasever $pkgname
Type the following 4 lines after these
lines, AND MAKE SURE EACH DOES NOT TAKE A NEWLINE:
#apply patches
cd "$srcdir/wine"
patch -p1 <
../0001-HACK-Disallow-block-based-textures-with-sub-block-si.patch
cd "$srcdir"
For future reference, this is the place
you can put any other wine patches, and it should work. Now ctrl+o
and ctrl+x out of nano (you did open nano with sudo, right? If you
forgot, save after ctrl+o to your home folder by typing
/home/username/PKGBUILD into the save file line).
For NON-ARCHLINUX USERS: I'm not
entirely sure how the various distros build from scratch; I've been
using Arch for nearly 6 years now and am not particularly helpful for
you here. However, IF you know how to get your wine compiled (read
the fine wikis), and all you need is to patch it, just do the
following:
1. Download wget, if you don't already
have it installed on your system.
2. Find the place where you downloaded
the source code tree. cd into the "/src" directory in this
tree.
3. Find where the "wine"
folder is in the source tree that you downloaded off the internets,
and cd into it. Then type:
wget
http://uz.sns.it/~ranma42/iLoL/0001-HACK-Disallow-block-based-textures-with-sub-block-si.patch
4. This will have downloaded the patch
to the "/src" directory.
5. cd into "/src/wine"
6. Type the following:
patch -p1 <
../0001-HACK-Disallow-block-based-textures-with-sub-block-si.patch
7. WINE SHOULD NOW BE PATCHED.
8. Compile wine.
9. Follow the "EVERYBODY"
instructions below.
ARCHLINUX USERS: It's time for me to do
bad things. Don't tell the powerusers in #archlinux IRC that I told
you to do this; they will call you nine kinds of idiot, and probably
ban me for life for telling you to run makepkg as root. In lieu of
potentially breaking your system, you can follow along by copying
your new PKGBUILD to someplace in your home directory and trying to
follow along as a regular user, WITHOUT using the --asroot option on
makepkg. I am a bad/lazy person, however, and did not try to do it
this way. But please try it this way BEFORE doing it as the
superuser; I would feel mildly bad if somebody narc'd their computer.
YOU. HAVE. BEEN. WARNED.
DOWNLOAD YOUR (x86_64) DEPENDENCIES:
pacman -Sy autoconf ncurses bison perl
fontforge flex prelink gcc gcc-multilib giflib lib32-giflib libpng
lib32-libpng gnutls lib32-gnutls libxinerama lib32-libxinerama
libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxmu lib32-libxmu libxxf86vm
lib32-libxxf86vm libxml2 lib32-libxml2 libldap lib32-libldap lcms
lib32-lcms mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils
lib32-v4l-utils alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libxcomposite
lib32-libxcomposite mesa lib32-mesa oss samba
I don't know what they are for 32-bit
OS's, but you can find them in the PKGBUILD file, and they will be
very similar, though probably not as many. Use your head. Now that
those are installed:
cd /var/abs/multilib/wine
Type the following:
sudo makepkg --asroot
It will start to build wine, and then
fail miserably BECAUSE WE FORGOT A DEPENDENCY. GO AND DOWNLOAD YOUR
DEPENDENCIES >:(.
^^That last bit is what happens to me
all the time :P. If this does happen to you, just sudo rm -r the /src
and /pkg trees in /var/abs/multilib/wine, download your missing
dependencies, and rerun sudo makepkg --asroot.
At this point, wine should be compiling
flawlessly, assuming I've written down these directions correctly.
I'm writing them after the fact and hoping I didn't forget anything.
Now you go do something else for an hour while it compiles.
EVERYBODY: So, you've got wine
compiled. Congrats! Hopefully you spent less time at it than I did
:). Now you'll want to go to
/home/username/.playonlinux/wine/linux-x86 and create a directory
called 1.5.18-LeagueOfLegends. Then copy the following folders from
wherever you've compiled wine (for me, it was in
/var/abs/multilib/wine/pkg/usr) into
/home/username/.playonlinux/wine/linux-x86/1.5.18-LeagueOfLegends:
/bin
/include
/lib
/lib32
/share
If you're not using a 64-bit OS, you
probably won't have /lib32, at the least (but I don't know for sure),
so don't sweat it.
Just a few more, very simple steps:
1. Run PlayOnLinux.
2. Select League of Legends.
3. Click on "Configure"
button on the top right or the bar on the right.
4. Select the "General" tab,
if you're not already there.
5. Click the down-drop arrow beside
1.5.5-LeagueOfLegends
6. Select 1.5.18-LeagueOfLegends
7. Select the "Wine" tab (at
the top, beside the "General" tab).
8. Select the "Configure Wine"
button, with the gears picture (this will run winecfg).
9. Under the "Applications"
tab (you should start here), you will see "Windows Version"
bar. Change this from Windows 7 to Windows XP to get rid of the
so-called "Laser Light Show" (Particle effects are not
rendered correctly in the Windows 7 emulation, apparently).
10. PLAY. LEAGUE. BITCHES.
Fin.
Edited by Cronanius
