Any possibility to run Eve on Linux these days?

Issues, Workarounds & Localization General Issues
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Hi,

with the Windows 10 count down and the restrictive installation possibilities of Windows 11 I am trying to find out if Eve can be installed and run on Linux. I have seen posts from 2022 in the forum where people have success and a number of years back there was even an unofficial “HowTo” if I remember correct. I am not looking for official Linux support from CCP obviously, just trying to figure out if anybody had success in that direction recently. I would imagine with the Win10/11 issue on the horizon more ppl will want to use a system they already have buy may not be upgradable to Win11. MacOS is not an option for me, I have jumped off that train years back and I am not going back there.

Kind Regards
The Starhoppers

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Generally the answer is yes, bu it depends on how you want to do it and on which system. I run a debian with nvidia drivers and wine. Others run steam/proton, lutris or similar. You might want to read through the linux subsection on the forums.

As for wine it is as easy as setting the environment up with winetricks like:
./winetricks corefonts msdelta vkd3d vcrun2022 dxvk2030

And after that run EVE as given by the icon (right click menu/launch targeet) after installation, but with a little optimization:
env WINEPREFIX=“/home/xxx/.wine” WINEESYNC=0 WINEFSYNC=0 wine C:\users\xxx\AppData\Local\eve-online\eve-online.exe

I used the latest wine staging as it keeps up faster when EVE things break, which you have to expect from time to time when CCP is implementing really big changes.

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Yes, sorry. will do in the future.

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OK, that now fails with the user used by wine. I get Please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of “Run as Administrator” when running the installer and that seems to be an issue not having staging and the “runas” command. There appears to be no installation package for Linux Mint 22 so I think I park this for now until I have that figured out.

Thanks for the tips !
The Starhoppers

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Simplest way I’ve found is through the Steam version, using Valve’s Proton. You can log into your standalone account through the Steam version of the launcher, too.