How To Install Runescape On Ubuntu

RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) web based online game. According to Wikipedia, the game has approximately 10 meg active accounts per month, most 200 million registered accounts, and is recognized by the Guinness Globe Records as the world's most popular free MMORPG.

The game tin can run in a browser, but there are also downloadable clients for Windows and Mac, just non for Linux. However, there is an unofficial Linux port of the Windows RuneScape client (the game launcher is opensource, the client file jagexappletviewer.jar is airtight source, but information technology'south allowed to be used in ports if anyone decided to brand 1) which includes fixes and operation tweaks along with working language settings.

The unofficial Linux client is a package of perl scripts that replicate the Windows client behaviour like reading the parameters to use from a .prm text file and too, it makes sure that OpenGL works when using Java7/OpenJDK7 which, according to its programmer, is an upshot for Linux users due to Java being unable to find its own libraries without wrapping it inside the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Without this, Linux users would have safemode available as the display mode, which gives about 4fps.

The packet as well includes a RuneScape Client Settings GUI which lets the users alter some script and client settings, likewise as a jagexcache cleaner.

Install the unofficial RuneScape Linux Client

To install the unofficial RuneScape Linux/Unix Game Client in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, eleven.10, 11.04, 10.10 or 10.04, use the post-obit commands:

          sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hikariknight/unix-runescape-customer sudo apt-go update sudo apt-get install unix-runescape-client        

Note: the "unix-runescape-customer" packet is a dummy packet which will install OpenJDK if it is not installed so if you want to use a custom Coffee packet (Sun/Oracle Coffee) without installing OpenJDK you tin just install the "runescape" package instead.

In that location is also a video on how install the RuneScape customer in Ubuntu, HERE.

Afterward the installation completes, run RuneScape from the menu / Nuance. The kickoff time you run the RuneScape launcher, a terminal window will be displayed which lets you lot select the official (.jar) client you lot want to use and in one case the download finishes, y'all can launch RuneScape.

The unofficial RuneScape Linux/Unix Game Customer programmer mentions that the game runs dramastically faster in 32bit Coffee than on 64bit Coffee on Linux because the client jvm (hotspot customer) is not bachelor for 64bit.

There are some known problems when running RuneScape on Linux, merely there are as well some fixes available - check them out on the RuneScape wiki.

To install the RuneScape Linux/Unix client on other Linux distributions, see THIS forum post.

Thank you to HikariKnight for the tip and all the info!

Source: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/how-to-install-runescape-linux-game.html

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