Wine StarCraft Installer for Ubuntu

What does this script do?

The installer script will install StarCraft using the winehq-staging package. As it's a 32bit build, you'll probably need to enable i386 support for your system.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

This will create $HOME/.starcraft folder to deploy $WINEPREFIX, so no root privileges required.

Installation

1. Install winehq-staging

Follow instructions here You will need to install Staging branch

2. Download the "StarCraft-Setup.exe" into the same folder you have this script

You can download the StarCraft-Setup.exe here

$ ls -al
-rwxr-xr-x  1 user user 3205616 May 13 16:33 StarCraft-Setup.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 user user    2861 May 13 15:46 wine-sc-installer.sh
-rw-rw-r--  1 user user   13098 May 13 10:40 winecfg-icon.png
-rw-rw-r--  1 user user  125521 May 13 10:36 starcraft-icon.png

3. Chmod the script as executable.

$ chmod 755 wine-sc-installer.sh

4. run "./wine-sc-installer"

$ ./wine-sc-installer.sh

Type 1 and press Enter to start installation.

5. If asked, install "Mono" and "Gecko" packages for the wine prefix. Following the installation, create the .desktop menu entries as described in the next step.

6. Run wine-sc-installer.sh and select Option 2 to create shortcuts.

7. Now, you should have 2 new icons in your "Game" category; "StarCraft", "StarCraft WineCfg". Simply click on StarCraft to run the game.

Uninstall

Run "./wine-sc-installer" and select Option 3.

Script will delete the following folders & directories.

$ rm -rfd $HOME/.starcraft
$ rm $HOME/.local/share/applications/StarCraft.desktop
$ rm $HOME/.local/share/applications/SCWineConfig.desktop