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desgua
Asked: 2019-10-17 05:28:53 +0800 CST

How to install Facebook Gameroom on WINE?

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Facebook Gameroom is a Windows app for games that can be downloaded from: https://www.facebook.com/gameroom/download/

I have tried to install it with Ubuntu 18.04 default Wine (1.6) and also with Winehq from upstream (https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu).

I have installed and tested dotnet 45, 46 and 461 with winetricks.

The "FacebookGameroom.exe" installer get stuck with a message that says "Connecting" when I run wine FacebookGameroom.exe.

Interestingly I get more progress running natively with mono mono FacebookGameroom.exe, it goes through "Connecting" > "Downloading" > "Installing" but then get stuck too.

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  1. Best Answer

    1. Install Winehq following the instructions of https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu 

      sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

    2. Install winetricks following instructions of https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks 

      cd "${HOME}/Downloads"
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

    3. Make a wine container for example 

      mkdir ~/Wine/gameroom && cd ~/Wine/gameroom

    4. Run export WINEARCH=win32 and export WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/Wine/gameroom

    5. Run winetricks and install dotnet452

    6. Run wine uninstaller and install "FacebookGamesArcade.msi"
      (obs.: in order to download this file one will have to repeat steps 1 to 5 making another container and use winetricks to install ole32.dll. Don't install it in the same container you plan to install FacebookGamesArcade.msi because then it won't load. Then run wine FacebookGameroom.exe. Then search inside ../drive_c/users/$USER/Temp/something for the installer "FacebookGamesArcade.msi").

    7. Open the app by running 

      wine ~/Wine/gameroom/drive_c/users/$USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Facebook/Games/FacebookGameroom.exe

    The Gameroom will start and would look like:

    enter image description here

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