Installing Morrowind on Linux

This article will show you step by step how to install The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Tribunal and Bloodmoon under Linux for running with WINE.
I have tested this with Ubuntu 9.04 and WINE-1.1.33.

This process is much more involved than normal as newer versions of WINE have broken MP3 playback support, so you will need to recompile WINE.

Cleaning up

First you will need to remove any old versions of WINE and libmpg123, how you go about doing this depends on what package management tool you use, I will be giving the below instruction specifically for Ubuntu Linux 9.04, but may also work on other Debian based distributions.

• Open the terminal

• Type ‘sudo apt-get remove wine mpg123 libmpg123-0 libmpg123-dev’

Getting the needed stuff

You will be needing quite a bit of stuff before you can begin compiling, first you need the latest WINE source and libmpg123.

• Get WINE from here

• Get the latest version of libmpg123 from here

Also get the needed compiler tools, this is ‘build-essential’ on Ubuntu. There may be other packages you will need but you will find out what they are when you get to configuring WINE.

Compiling and installing libmpg123

This step should be pretty simple to manage and it should not require anything besides the compile tools.

• Extract the source of mpg123 you downloaded and stick it in a folder

• ‘cd’ to that folder and type ./configure –enable-static –prefix=’/usr/’
• If configure went well type the following
• ‘make’
• ‘sudo make install’

libmpg123 should now be installed.

Compiling and installing WINE

• Extract WINE into a folder and cd to it.

• run ./configure –with-mpg123 –prefix=’/usr/’
• Configure will warn you about any missing libraries, you should install these using your systems package manager unless you do not need the features they provide.
• If your happy type ‘make depend’ then ‘make’
• Wait for WINE to compile, this will take about half an hour on a average system
• Once the compile is complete type ‘sudo make install’
• Now test out wine !

Installing Morrowind, Tribunal and Bloodmoon

• Insert the disk or mount the disk image for Morrowind

• Go to the disk directory and type ‘wine Setup.exe’
• Install Morrowind
• Repeat this same process for Tribunal then Bloodmoon, do not do in any other order.
• Get the latest Bloodmoon patch here
• Mount the Morrowind image or disk and play