For the HOWTO: Install and Use Poker Client in Linux, I’m in the process of getting installation media for ubuntu linux 7.04, on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop.. So far any CD I burn, the damn drive will not recognize. I’m downloading the DVD file via bittorrent to see if it will read DVD’s (after all, it IS a DVD rom..) So hopefully I will update the howto to use ubuntu as well as Fedora Core [456].

For the 2007 Donkey Challenge, I think I have either completed or damn near close to completing the $10 level. I have been really bad about updating the DC page.

I also think it’s time to re-read Harrington v1 and v2. My tournament play has gone from ok to poor.

Introduction

This document will help the poker playing Linux user install wine, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and optionally, BoDog, UltimateBet and Internet Explorer (which is required to run BoDog and UltimateBet). Some of the topics discussed here are for the more advanced Linux user who is not scared to recompile applications and patch source code, but this is not required if you are running Fedora Core 4 or 5. I am currently running Fedora Core 5, so that’s what this HOWTO will reflect. Any section of the HOWTO that looks like the following is run from a X terminal, or the command line.

# command

This is a Note.

Requirements

To help weed out other bugs and configurations, we do not want any type of wine configurations installed on the system. I would assume for the most part that you do not have wine installed yet. If you do and you have a lot of data and Windows applications working, this HOWTO shouldn’t interfere with the data you have now, but you never know what could happen. Please backup any data before starting the steps outlined in this HOWTO. On my Fedora Core boxes, the data to backup is in ~/.wine

# tar -cvf wine-bakup.tar ~/.wine

Here is the list of files that you will need to download. When to download and where to download then to are described below.

wine
PokerStars Client (PokerStarsInstall.exe) or Fill Tilt Client (FullTiltSetup.exe)
Internet Explorer Optional
BoDog Client (BoDogClientPoker.exe) Optional
UltimateBet Client (ubsetup.exe) Optional

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tags: bodog, full tilt, linux, poker, pokerstars, ultimatebet, wine