You might have heard the news: Diablo IV has been announced yesterday with a. What better time to install Diablo III Diablo II again and have some fun while waiting for the latest iteration of the franchise?But it’s 2019 and it is not always easy to install a game first released back in June 2000 (yes, that’s 19 years ago. Yes, you’re old)! In this post I will show you how to install Diablo II with its extension Lord of Destruction on Windows, MacOS and Linux (Ubuntu in this case), using as well as optional sandboxing using! Let’s get to itIf you are running MacOS or Windows, you’re in luck!
The official game launcher already supports those platforms natively so you can install it and play straight away without extra hassle! Here are the links:.Get a License KeyFirst of, you will need a valid CD-Key for the game (both Diablo II and its extension LOD). You can get them on the for about 20 euros from Blizzard (yes, that’s a shame, the game used to cost 15.99 euros a few years ago!), or by registering your old keys if you still have the box version (which is what I did). Get the LauncherThe second step is to download the Windows launcher of the game which we will use in conjunction with Wine to make it work on Linux. You can find the links on. Here they are if you want to save some time:.Installing Latest WineYou could probably use the stock version of wine which ships with your Linux distribution but I always like to get the latest shiny version so here we go. If you use another distribution than Ubuntu, you can skip this section completely.
From the:If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture (if you haven’t already): sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386Download and add the repository key: wget -nc apt-key add winehq.keyNow you need to get the repository matching your release of Ubuntu. For me it was bionic (you can get yours using command lsbrelease -cs), but check official instructions if that does not correspond to yours.
Sudo apt-add-repository 'deb bionic main'sudo apt install -install-recommends winehq-stableNote that I could not install winehq-stable directly and had to first install one of its dependencies manually. If you encounter an error, then try to run the following command before installing winehq-stable again: sudo apt install libasound2-plugins:i386I am using version 4.0.2 of wine. Optional Installing FirejailFirejail has a special place in my heart.
It allows to sandbox any program running on Linux using kernel capabilities (some of them you might already know from Docker world). From the:Firejail is a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, seccomp-bpf and Linux capabilities. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.
Firejail can work in a SELinux or AppArmor environment, and it is integrated with Linux Control Groups.There is an extra benefit in my opinion. You can specify a different directory to be used as the / (home) folder of each program you run in a sandbox instead of your real home.
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This is great because it allows to keep files and folders of each app nicely isolated. For example I run thunderbird, cliqz and other programs in sandboxes and assign them different homes like /.sandboxes/thunderbird, /.sandboxed/cliqz, etc. This means that I can clean-up all files for each program by simply deleting their respective folders! That’s super convenient.Let’s get back to Diablo II! Install Firejail from your official Linux repositories (or if that’s your thing that’s what I did).
I am currently running version 0.9.61 but I assume this should work with other versions as well.Firejail comes with a preset for sandboxing wine which you can find at /etc/firejail/wine.profile. That’s the one we will be using!
Preparing Wine Home FolderLet’s now prepare the wine folder that we will use in our Firejail sandbox: mkdir -p /.sandboxes/wineCopy the two downloaders into /.sandboxes/wine/:. /.sandboxes/wine/DownloaderDiablo2enUS.exe. /.sandboxes/wine/DownloaderDiablo2LordofDestructionenUS.exeInstalling Diablo IIWe can now proceed and install Diablo II base game: firejail -profile=/etc/firejail/wine.profile -private=/.sandboxes/wine wine /DownloaderDiablo2enUS.exeHere are screenshots for each step of the installation process: Press 'OK' to select default download folder. Enjoy the murloc view while downloading the game. Press 'Install Diablo II'.
Accept license. Enter you CD-Key. Press 'OK' to select default destination directory. It's so fast that I don't know how I managed to make a screenshot!Press Back then Exit Installer.
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Time to install the extension! Installing Lord of Destruction firejail -profile=/etc/firejail/wine.profile -private=/.sandboxes/wine wine /DownloaderDiablo2LordofDestructionenUS.exeI will spare you all the screenshots since the procedure is identical to the base version of the game.
When you are done, resist the damning temptation and exit the installer; there is one last thing we have to take care of Install Latest PatchBefore starting the game and finally start playing, you will want to install the latest patch for Diablo II: 1.14d. Usually it can be done by accessing Battle.net in-game but for some reason it failed in my case because of a corrupted file Luckily, it’s possible to download and install the update manually. Get it from the following link:.Copy it into your wine home folder: /.sandboxes/wine/LODPatch114d.exe. Then start the update with: firejail -profile=/etc/firejail/wine.profile -private=/.sandboxes/wine wine /LODPatch114d.exe Let’s Play!Finally, to launch the game you can use the following command: firejail -profile=/etc/firejail/wine.profile -private=/.sandboxes/wine wine /.wine/drivec/Program Files (x86)/Diablo II/Diablo II.exeHave fun! There is no such thing as the 'Cow Level'.
I first tried to install Diablo 2 LOD from an iso image using acetone iso. However, after acetone iso mounted the image, it said 'Please install the labelled disc'.I then tried with Gmount, and, following advice I received from some forums, I attempted to create mount points and then install; after it mounted the image, it installed the first three disc images but not the expansion.When I tried to play, it told me to insert the labelled disc, even though the iso image was still mounted with Gmount. How can I resolve this problem? According to you should be able to run it.So you should install, open terminal and type: sudo apt-get install wineLet the installer finish installing Wine.And now you can insert the dialbo disk and run the.exeAnd if you legally bought Diablo 2 LOD you should have a downloadable alternative on battle.net, which should not ask for a cd when installed.And you could always download a crack, desperate times ask for desperate solutions.Wine folders:Wine installation:Wine will now install diablo 2 to it's 'c' drive, which is located inyour home folder with the name '.wine'. This folder is hidden bydefault.Wine as a program:When users think of emulators, they think of programs like Dosbox or zsnes.
Theseapplications run as virtual machines and are slow, having to emulateeach processor instruction. Wine does not do any CPU emulation - hencethe name 'Wine Is Not an Emulator.' Some people argue that since Wineintroduces an extra layer above the system a Windows application willrun slowly. While technically true, Wine is no different from anyother software library in this regard; even newer versions of Windowsmust load extra resources to support older applications.