Installing Cardbox on Wine
These instructions assume that you have already installed Wine. Although we use screenshots from the Asus Eee, the installation should work the same way on most systems with Wine.
1. Go to the Cardbox Client download page and click on the link that says “Cardbox 3.0 installer”. Firefox will say something like this:
- If for some reason Firefox doesn’t recognise the Windows Executable
type, it will only offer you a “Save to disk” option. This seems
to happen if you use versions of Wine that don’t set up Firefox properly
(we came across the problem when using the Asus Eee with the latest version
of Wine from Wine HQ instead
of the official one in the Debian repository). You can still install Cardbox,
by saving the file to disk and then explicitly using Wine to start
instcli.exe.
2. Once the file has been downloaded, Wine may warn you that it is about to start a Windows program:
If it asks you this question, say Yes.
3. Wine will start the Cardbox installer. It may also display another warning message:
This message will go away by itself after a while, or you can press Dismiss to get rid of it immediately.
4. The Cardbox installer will start.
Follow the instructions. At the end you will be asked whether to install icons on the desktop and the Start menu. With the present versions of Wine these icons never seem to appear anyway, but there is no harm in asking them to be installed: newer versions of Wine may make them visible.
5. It is now possible to run Cardbox.
