Does anybody know how to install these gog series under linux?
The games are really "fresh" and not yet available throught playonlinux.

Any help is much appriciated.

Arena and Daggerfall: Run the installer through WINE, and then just run the game under DOSBox.

Morrowind: Run the installer through WINE, and use WINE to run the game.

See
[url=http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Linux]http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Linux[/url]

(playonlinux should have a setting for Morrowind. That game has been out for over a decade and is well known.)

Hi Crystalline,

First of all:

Keep an eye out for OpenMW! (openmw.org)
OpenMW is an open source engine for Morrowind that runs natively on Linux.
It is still in Alpha, so, it may not be a good idea to start your first play-through with it. (It still has a lot of bugs, still has compatibility problems with many mods and misses some features the vanilla game has) In the future, OpenMW will almost definitely be the very best way to play Morrowind on every operating system.

Concerning what dtgreene said:
- The way GOG set up the *.conf files for DOSBox in Daggerfall and Arena it may be more difficult than you think getting them to run as intended on Linux.
You may be better of using [url=http://wiwiki.wiwiland.net/index.php/Arena_:_ArenaSetup_EN]ArenaSetup[/url]
and [url=http://wiwiki.wiwiland.net/index.php?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN]DaggerfallSetup[/url]

You also will have to install those with Wine/PlayOnLinux first. I think, DaggerfallSetup had a problem for me during install but I can't remember how I solved it.
- If you want to know how to get a program running in Wine, always check on WineHQ. Morrowind runs really well through Wine, however, the performance will unsurprisingly be significantly lower than on Windows. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3383

Concerning Redguard:
Unless you have a very good computer and a lot of time, don't even try running it on Linux (it currently even runs unacceptably bad on Windows for many people):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11373

I haven't tried running Battlespire yet.

What game do you want to install first? :)

Note that you can extract Inno Setups (including GOG installers) with innoextract. It will create an app and tmp directories: the former contains the game itself, the latter contains the installer files (banners, buttons, etc).

Thanks for all your replies.

@0Grapher, OpenMW looks interesting indeed. thank you for the heads up.

@eidolies, I wasn't able to just run the "morrowind" installer straight through wine, would give me a bad .EXE file message.
Never heard of innoextract until now.. ;)

Just extracted the installer with this ,went into the app folder and run the morrowind launcher with wine and the game runs flawlessly. Thanks!

This thread inspired me to check out OpenMW, and compiled from bleeding edge source it's fantastic. Only serious problem I've had in several hours of play is the severe fish-eye lens effect at the edges of my wide screen (NPCs are not as close as they appear, tables are not so severely elliptical as they appear! - apparently this just got fixed) If you're playing above 800x600 you'll definitely want to change the UI scale in the settings.cfg, though. I use 1.25 for my 1366x768 laptop screen and 2.0 for my 1920x1080 monitor. 1.0 scale is a recipe for serious eyestrain at 1080p.

I'm not playing with the GOG copy (20 bucks is steep for a game I already have on CD) but chatter in the OpenMW community indicates that OpenMW has no problems working with a GOG installation. The downside is it seriously took me 6 hours to track down/compile all the dependencies. I'm probably as stupid as you can get and still be able to work out a compiler, though, so ymmv. It's well-worth the effort to compile for yourself, though, as there are a ton of features and bugfixes that have not been released in precompiled binaries yet.

Contrast OpenMW's stellar performance with not even being able to get it to run using the playonlinux scripts (which are even made for the CD copy I'm using, not the GOG copy folks here would likely be using.)

In summary, <3 OpenMW.

Of interest, I noticed that Gentoo GNU/Linux has an ebuild for OpenMW. I haven't tried it, however.

(It's also worth noting that if you have a functioning Gentoo system, you necessarily *have* a compiler. On other systems that isn't necessarily true: On debian you need to install build-essential to get a compiler, and on Mac OS X you need to install Xcode.)

Debian sid also apparently has an openmw package as well.

There is also an openmw Ubuntu PPA (Linux Mint compatible) that will take care of your dependencies. By the time I broke down and went for that option my only remaining problem was getting MyGUI 3.2.0 off my system (3.2.1 is required to build OpenMW.)