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MANTIS on Ubuntu (or other Linux) solution!

Last post 05-29-2009, 7:27 AM by CorradinFarwind. 0 replies.
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  •  05-29-2009, 7:27 AM 1762788

    MANTIS on Ubuntu (or other Linux) solution!

    Howdy folks, just got my WoWTCG RK, TO, and Specialist certs this week, and as I'm a Linux user I was having some trouble getting MANTIS to run (Wine won't run it, even with every workaround I could find). I very much wanted to have it running (since, you know, it's impossible to sanction events without it) and this is what I finally ended up doing:

    1. Download Sun VirtualBox from here and install it.
    2. Install a copy of Windows XP on a VirtualBox Guest machine.
    3. Install the .NET framework 1.1 from here on your VirtualBox Guest machine.
    4. Install and run MANTIS using VirtualBox.
    This works more or less perfectly, with the drawback that you will need a Windows XP CD and corresponding Windows XP CD-key to use this solution. I'm still working on a way to get MANTIS running under just Wine; I'll keep you all posted.



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