A friend recently asked what he would have to do to get me to play WoW with him. I texted back I’d look into it. The problem is two-fold:
- I’ve never really played WoW in my life (lol)
- and more importantly, my Macbook Pro just died (I have yet to try a repair) and my Buster desktop has an old GPU, so it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to match expected framerates with X11 Vulkan drivers. At least, that’s what cursory research told me. So I decided to trudge on.
In any case, I hit a hurdle much sooner while trying to install Wine Staging itself. The problem here is that Wine now requires both x64 and i386 libfaudio0 drivers, but those repositories have been removed from the standard sources.
The biggest stumbling block was with libfaudio0:i386 installation, which did not want to happen. I eventually figured out how to install this manually thanks to this post (search for libfaudio). Though I could have likely sourced it elsewhere, I wanted to get this up and running asap and document it here for later. Right now I just want to see if running WoW on my system is even possible!
Aside from that, it was pretty straightforward – the usual process of chasing down and installing dependencies (via –install-recommends if possible) got Wine up and running!