help me with unity for playonlinux

[cupcakecool]

hello i have tried to download unity for awhile for about 5 to 8 times cause of this when i try to open it says error with initializing its license system and now it says after it says that this application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin windows it says it reinstall it may fix but its the same is there something i have to do? im on linux mint 17.1

[Pendrokar]

See comment in https://github.com/Unity3D-Wine-Support/Unity3D-on-Wine/issues/21#issuecomment-109198254 , Come back here to reply.

[jurf]

You probably have an outdated Wine, and the PoL script doesn't work-around known Wine bugs. Running wine reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v ProductId /t REG_SZ /d 12345-oem-0000001-54321 should make it work.

[cupcakecool]

but i didnt use the script i just downloaded it with unity site and chose a file to cover it with POL like i followed him to do but using a script i did that once it didnt use it cause it said wrong one

[cupcakecool]

but what wine should i use?

[jurf]

Preferably the newest one, staging if you want OpenGL.

Did you try the command?

[cupcakecool]

no not yet so i install it again with the script

[cupcakecool]

so i used the script so you have to download something? it said its not a vaild script is this normal?

[cupcakecool]

ok you can just tell me what to do in a full comment that is best

[jurf]

Yes. It's not signed by the PoL team. Although the script is obsolete, you can find a new version in #50.

It would be easier to use the winetricks script right now, or even updating Wine and installing manually.

What distro are you running?

[cupcakecool]

distro? for like kind of linux? if so linux mint the newst one so 17.1

[jurf]

Please follow these instructions: https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Installation#-ubuntulinux-mint

After that, just manually install Unity. No, PoL, no winetricks, no scripts.

It should work just fine.

[cupcakecool]

thanks :) this will be helpful me and my friend will make a horror game and did you do this?

[jurf]

Yeah, my current setup is installed this way, just on Arch linux.

Good luck with your game :)

[cupcakecool]

thanks :) so i run that in thermal then i install right? i just want to make sure cause sometimes it can be hard for me to follow stuff and dont want to mess up

[jurf]

*terminal

The wine installation yes. But you can do the Unity installation from the GUI.

[cupcakecool]

ok but asking dumbly sorry but it doesnt say which one do i do any? or just the vary top

[jurf]

Do all the commands under the ubuntu section.

[cupcakecool]

im so sorry but where is that? sorry im not a PC tech person like you :)

[jurf]

OK, type this into your terminal (tip: you can paste stuff into the terminal with Ctrl+Shift+V:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable

Then:

sudo apt-get update

After that:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

And finally:

sudo apt-get install wine-staging-compat

Now you can just double click on your Unity installer from your file manager.

[cupcakecool]

ok thanks but i can use Pol for this so i type it in and then just install by Pil

[cupcakecool]

*pol

[cupcakecool]

ok i put that in terminal then i went into files like you said then i clicked on this so called unity download asstaint and it started downloading so i did this right?

[cupcakecool]

but in terminal after i pasted it kept saying command not found is that right?

[cupcakecool]

i am sorry for dumb things the only thing i can do with PCs is wipe hard drives causing my screen/ PC wont turn on but i can fix that etc

[cupcakecool]

but its still the same

[cupcakecool]

it still says the same thing

[jurf]

Closing in favour of #59.