Parts were indeed originally found on the Ubuntu Wiki article on WoW, other parts however were not (until I added them to the wiki article).

Regardless of that, who cares? I mention the wiki post in my post here, and even SAY that a lot of the material can be found there. It was NOT, as you say, cut and paste. With the exception of specific commands to run, the rest of the content is different and written by me.

My objective was to provide people with information, hopefully helping them in the process. Judging by the comments thus far, I’d say I succeeded.

Later today I will look up the specs for a Dell 1520, but could you provide me with what the sound hardware is in that machine? Dells sometimes use some funky hardware that can make running linux a pain ( my first linux machine was a dell inspiron1100 notebook and was an absolute bear to get working, but I did manage it)

As for Synaptic, what is it doing that is preventing you from getting things?

While it’s entirely possible this could be easily resolved, it’s also just as possible that it will be a long and painful road, hopefully that’s not the case.

Second, my dilemma, I installed 7.10 (Gusty) on my Dell 1520 and did not dual boot trying to force myself to learn Linux to install WoW on it via Wine. Here are my obstacles:

A. No sound

B. I need to make Synaptic package manager either let me install it or get out of the way. It’s even blocking getting Automatix, grrr.

C. Until I can get these resolved I can’t play WoW. Now I am taking course in January for Linux at a community college and I am convinced this can work, just need help.

Thanks and I am sure once I get “A” & “B” fixed your article will be the bomb, until then patience.

No problem – glad you found it useful!

Thanks a lot for this tutorial!

While setting up different partitions for backups CAN be good in some cases, it won’t help much if you have a drive hardware failure. You might be better suited with an external hard drive plugged in or using a remote machine to backup to. I use both methods ( i have several machines being backed up, my mac uses time machine and an external drive, my ubuntu machine uses one of my servers to backup to) and both work well.

I definitely agree that installing Gutsy fresh is the way to go, though, I tried upgrading and it crashed about halfway through because it couldn’t (For whatever reason) install tzdata, and subsequently everything that depends on it (which is a lot). A Fresh install worked flawlessly though. Gutsy is definitely better than Feisty, at least it has been for me.

Lastly, There’s nothing wrong with being a linux n00b, everybody starts somewhere and that you took a chance with Linux at all is pretty awesome. If you run into any issues with anything feel free to ping me, I’ll see what I can do to help you resolve the issue.

I originally installed (Dapper) without setting up partitions (I was scared lol – Yeah, I’m a Linux noob) and I’m thinking I should do that to make backups easier. Plus, it seems general consensus is that installing Gutsy fresh works better than upgrading from Feisty.