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January 18th, 2008, 13:02 GMT · By Marius Nestor

How to Play Prince of Persia on Ubuntu

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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within on Ubuntu 7.10

Prince of Persia is definitely one of my all-time favorite games. It's a third-person action adventure video game published by Ubisoft. The Prince of Persia trilogy is composed of the following: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. Without any further introduction, here's what you need to get started:

� Wine
� Original Prince of Persia CDs

Install and configure Wine

If you don't have Wine installed, here's how to get the latest version:

1. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and paste the following commands (one by one - hit ENTER after each one):

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

sudo apt-get update

Then close the terminal window.

2. Go to Applications -> Add/Remove, make sure you select the "All available applications" option in the upper-right side of the window, search for wine and install it. When it's done, close the window.

3. Hit ALT+F2 and paste in the following command:

wine iexplore http://appdb.winehq.com/

Click 'Install' when prompted and when you'll see the "Wine Internet Explorer" window and WineHQ website, then you can close it.

4. Search on Google for the Tahoma font with the following string:

tahoma filetype:ttf

Save it on your desktop, then copy it in the wine fonts folder (/home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts).

Tip: To see the .wine folder, go to View -> Show Hidden Files in your home directory.

Install Prince of Persia

Insert your Prince of Persia CD or DVD in the optical drive, a folder appears after a few seconds and all you have to do is to right click on the setup.exe file and open it with Wine. Now follow the installation steps.

When the installation is over, run the game and do the following:

1. Create a profile
2. Restart the game.

Have fun playing Prince of Persia on Ubuntu and look below for some cool screenshots I've made!

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READER COMMENTS:

Comment #1 by: Peter Gasston on 19 Jan 2008, 01:20 UTC	reply to this comment
So basically: install Wine, then install PoP.

Comment #2 by: Srikar on 21 Jan 2008, 06:32 UTC	reply to this comment
hmm a bit of good news for linux users ; )

Comment #3 by: riad on 02 Mar 2008, 08:45 UTC	reply to this comment
I want to play o prince ogf persia

Comment #4 by: Chathura Kithmal on 13 Apr 2008, 02:42 UTC	reply to this comment
now i'm installing the game.... works fine

Comment #5 by: zakkimonk on 24 May 2008, 16:01 UTC	reply to this comment
thanks a lot its working

Comment #6 by: linux93 on 18 Nov 2008, 09:08 UTC	reply to this comment
Will it work in Debian?? Thanx for reply..

Comment #7 by: Marius Nestor on 18 Nov 2008, 09:25 UTC	reply to this comment
For linux93: Yes, it will work on Debian... just install the latest version of Wine :)

Comment #8 by: PetjaL on 01 Feb 2009, 21:15 UTC	reply to this comment
I downloaded a free version of the game with commercials. I have a problem with signing in to ubi.com. It just says: internal error and crashes. Can someone please help. I have Hardy and did all the stuff above.

Comment #9 by: Jeremy on 29 Mar 2009, 02:17 UTC	reply to this comment
So I already have wine, and I went through the steps of installing this game. I added the font file, and did the setup deal. POP T2T downloaded, and it said to restart. So I did, and then when I try to play from the desktop icon, it says I have to restart again. It won't let me go in. Anyone have this problem and fix it? Help would be appreciated.

Comment #10 by: endy on 28 May 2009, 18:59 UTC	reply to this comment
The game is installed... But at the running, shows only a wihite screen in the main menu with the options text... When I start a new game, plays the fisrt video "perfect". but then, when the game " begins" the screen is white... It doesn't show nothing... Only audio... I hope you can help me about this...

Comment #10.1 by: Marius Nestor on 29 May 2009, 07:31 GMT

Hmm,. try to disable desktop effects and then run the game again.

Comment #10.2 by: Sam on 07 Jun 2009, 11:47 GMT

This is because of the ' Fog effects ' ....
Go to graphics options & disable it ..& you are done ..
Now POP will run just as on Windows .

Comment #10.3 by: Sam on 07 Jun 2009, 11:53 GMT

ALSO you must disable desktop effects first ....
I don't what it has to do with Direct-X , but it causes trouble running Direct-X games under wine . So select Visual effects as NONE before trying to run any game in wine .

Comment #11 by: subodh on 12 May 2010, 12:40 UTC	reply to this comment
I followed same steps in 10.04 ubuntu and the game installs perfectly . But after that when i click on desktop icon to play but the game crashes after the LOADING ( Blood falls from above) window. Plz help.

Comment #11.1 by: Jeribo on 08 Feb 2012, 11:18 GMT

Same here. game starts Ubisoft logo etc. are fine. then after loading game freeze and nothing more happens

Anyone can help please?

Comment #12 by: Moh.Salman on 20 Jun 2010, 11:52 UTC	reply to this comment
its anice game i played it for more than one month but actually if faced aproblem how to kill the old and big man when he gave you a hint 'look for eyes prince he will no see you ' I tried to kill him our decrease its strength but there is no chance I jumped over the hook and attached to its body but he removed and killed me what I can do

Comment #12.1 by: alex on 27 Aug 2010, 16:31 GMT

you need hear the sound of the sword and memorize it, when you be there, at the same time that the sound start, you need to atack him, and the rest is down atack, back atack and the rest is youtube.

Comment #13 by: Sean on 18 Mar 2011, 04:27 UTC	reply to this comment
I did as instructed, but the game won't run; when I try to open it the screen flickers a couple of times (I suspect it does that for the Ubisoft logo and other intros), then freezes. I had to force the application to close using System Monitor.

Comment #14 by: akshaya on 17 Oct 2011, 09:23 UTC	reply to this comment
project of prince of persia

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