FULL TILT ON UBUNTU ????

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Hey everyone. I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) on my pc. I have downloaded wine and full tilt, and I Was able to install Full Tilt successfully, but I can't get the program open. When I try to open it with WINE, nothing happens. Can Anyone Help? Thanks in advance!
 
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Simple question whats is WINE? Is it supported by Ubuntu 9.10? Because i know fulltilt is not supported on the operating system.
 
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Ubuntu is one of the worst operating systems available today, Idk if you paid for it but you should take it back before you throw your computer out the window
 
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try right clicking on the ft icon on your desktop and make sure you are running as administrator.
 
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Simple question whats is WINE? Is it supported by Ubuntu 9.10? Because i know fulltilt is not supported on the operating system.

Wine is a layer that allows windows programs to be run in Ubuntu. I know it works for full tilt on 9.10 because I have searched for help and others have it working.

I didnt pay for Ubuntu. It is completely free and so far I like it MUCH better than vista.

Thanks for the tip, I have already made sure of that
 
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simply install virtualbox , and run from there
 
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LOL, just because you guys don't know linux OSs doesn't make them bad. Haven't ran Full Tilt in wine, but I would say your asking in the wrong place. Look on the full tilt forums and the Ubuntu/wine forums and Im am sure you can either find the answer or at least get some useful help.
 
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LOL, just because you guys don't know Linux OSs doesn't make them bad. Haven't ran Full Tilt in wine, but I would say your asking in the wrong place. Look on the full tilt forums and the Ubuntu/wine forums and Im am sure you can either find the answer or at least get some useful help.

Thank you for posting a helpful response and not just being a defensive vista fanboy
 
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Thank you for posting a helpful response and not just being a defensive vista fanboy

They have a fanboy club for visa? ...seriously? Wow. They might as well have a fanboy club for eating shit.
 
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They have a fanboy club for VISA? ...seriously? Wow. They might as well have a fanboy club for eating shit.

LMAO... I was in no way shape or form defending Vista... I hate that OS...
 
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Vista does not kick Ubuntu's (or any linux distros) ass.

FYP :D

Although saying that, i cant use ubuntu atm because my only internet access is through an E169 mobile broadband dongle, which doesnt work on 9.10 (apparently works on 9.04 but i cant download the ISO b/c its HUGE and i have a 3GB allowance).......... and i can use it on vista, so if you have the same modem as me then vista could possibly kick ubuntu's ass, but it only wins on that one issue which kinda means that ubuntus already on the floor, possibly put there by Mint8 (another distro based on ubuntu but looking waaaay cooler and with a few little bells and whistles) which does kick ubuntus ass, and then vistas came along for a few sly digs so it can say he's harder than ubuntu, but he's not really :D

/geek rant
 
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ok guys I did not start this thread to create a vista vs. ubuntu argument. Can anyone help me with my question??
 
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ok guys I did not start this thread to create a vista vs. ubuntu argument. Can anyone help me with my question??

No no no no no no we didn't. No no no no no no we didn't. No we didn't, Well don't get us wrong. Excuse me Douggy, excuse me Douggy, excuse me Douggyfr3sh, you're on. :p
 
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ok guys I did not start this thread to create a vista vs. ubuntu argument. Can anyone help me with my question??

Chill.....

Seriously though if you really want this question answered you picked the wrong forum, even on 2p2 there aren't many linux users.

I suggest you ask on the ubuntu forums, the wine forums, or a general linux forum.

Off the top of my head though i'd just run a virtual machine, theres a program called turnkey??? i think, that you can run postgres through for HEM/PT3 too, i'm going to be trying to do this myself next week i think so i'll give you a PM if i get it working
 
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thanks orangepeeleo. For now I am just using the university's iMacs.
 
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The guy with Ubuntu as the worst OS is obviously completely ignorant, probably frustrated his GTA4 didn't work on it lol I don't use it anymore, plan to, have to stop being lazy (bit of a learning curve trying out any linux, but it's very nice and logical)

Windows 7 is pretty cool, unfortunately you pretty much have to use windows or mac for running poker, and a lot of PC games as well, not because linux is so crappy, because the gaming industry doesn't bother coding for linux, since it's only 1% of the market.

To the OP : I don't know what to say about playing on WINE, even if you get it to work, you also need the tracking software to work etc. and what if it crashes when you're in that big pot, in that big tourney or cash game, better just dual-boot and use window$ for poker.
 
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ok guys I did not start this thread to create a vista vs. ubuntu argument. Can anyone help me with my question??

I repeat, im using it on Ubuntu, installed virtualbox and worked fine.
 
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FullTilt doesn't seem to be working through WINE. I haven't tried VirtualBox yet though.
 
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I repeat, im using it on Ubuntu, installed virtualbox and worked fine.

Then you're not really using it on Ubuntu, you created a virtual machine on Ubuntu that's running windows. It's just like running windows, only with fewer resources and inside another OS.

You can likewise run Ubuntu in a virtual machine under windows...

So although it would still be running under windows, it's a solution if you have sufficient memory, drive space, cpu power etc. If you don't just dual-boot
 
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Im dual booting right now as I am just learning linux. From what I understand pokerstars and Full Tilt both usually work in wine, but both also have updates all the time which could easily change that status to not working. The problem comes when you want to use PT3/HEM while playing as these do not work in wine, atleast not that I have found.

The best solution I have read about so far seems to go the route of a VM (Virtual Machine, like Virtual Box and VMWare), like has already been suggested. But postgresql can be run natively on a linux system, so you dont run that in the VM or use the TurnKey one (from what I read that is basically just another VM).

You run a VM with XP on your linux system. Inside the XP VM you install your poker clients and HEM/PT3, but not Postgresql. On your normal system (linux) you install postgresql. Then you create a ODBC link from the XP VM to postgresql, point HEM/PT3 to postgresql and your done. From what Ive heard running it this way works great.

Those of you who said running it in a VM was slow, were you also running PostgreSQL on the Virtual Machine?

I am slowly making the switch completely over to linux (Ubuntu for now) and the more I get to know it, the less I want to boot up XP. And the only reason to boot into windows is to play poker. So most likely Ill have gotten rid of dual boot by the end of the week, and will have to try this out.

*If it uses too many resources and goes slow, Ill install postgresql on my file/print server. If I can stream videos in 720p from it streaming info for HEM shouldnt be a problem.
 
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Thanks guys. Very helpful info. HUD/ tracking software isn't really an issue for me ATM, I basically only play rush and sng's. For now using community imac's is working juuust fine. I think i'm just going to end up going with a fresh vista install on the laptop. :(
 
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