Guide to installing and running Chummer on Ubuntu

guide to installing and running Chummer on Ubuntu 19.10 or “Oh my God, why is this so hard? I regret switching from Windows, even though my PC is a potato.”
For the less tech savvy - or simply not Linux savvy people like me - here’s a quick guide to save you all the 5 hours it took me to find and figure out how to do this. To preface this document, I would like to offer mighty thanks to the people at the following links, and this tutorial is a 1 to 1 of their own tutorials, so you can also follow it through their websites: #REDIRECT http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/01/install-wine-5-0-stable-ubuntu-18-04-19-10/ https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/ https://github.com/chummer5a/chummer5a/wiki

Installing Mono
Open the terminal window, just search your apps or press CTRL + ALT + T. During the installation process, the terminal will ask for your admin password (to run sudo), and for your confirmation: input your password and “y”, respectively.
 * 1) Run: sudo apt install gnupg ca-certificates ( Obs: Just copy paste it to avoid typoes. )
 * 2) Run: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF (Obs: It’s all a single command, don’t run them separately.)
 * 3) Run: echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list (Obs: Also a single command.)
 * 4) Run: sudo apt update
 * 1) Run: echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list (Obs: Also a single command.)
 * 2) Run: sudo apt update
 * 1) Run: sudo apt update
 * 1) Run: sudo apt update

Installing Wine
Run command to enable 32 bit architecture: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 Download and install the repository key via command: wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key; sudo apt-key add winehq.key


 * 1) Add wine repository via command (for Ubuntu 19.10): sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ eoan main'
 * 2) NOTE: You may replace eoan in the code with:
 * 3) > bionic for Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x
 * 4) > xenial for Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.x
 * 5) [OPTIONAL] Add PPA for the required libfaudio0 library:
 * 6) For Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19.x, and Ubuntu 19.04 only, as higher Ubuntu releases already have libfaudio0 in the main repositories.
 * 7) Run: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
 * 8) Finally install Wine 5.0 stable via command: sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
 * 1) Finally install Wine 5.0 stable via command: sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
 * 1) Finally install Wine 5.0 stable via command: sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Installing winetricks

 * 1) You need to configure wine, and add a wine prefix. When a Windows-like window pops up, just close it. Run: WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
 * 2) Download winetricks and install it. Run: sudo apt install winetricks (Obs: Go to Settings > Power, set the sleep timer to Never and go drink some coffee.)
 * 3) Install all Chummer specific dependencies. Run: winetricks -q dotnet452 allfonts
 * 1) Install all Chummer specific dependencies. Run: winetricks -q dotnet452 allfonts
 * 1) Install all Chummer specific dependencies. Run: winetricks -q dotnet452 allfonts

Running Chummer5e
Download the latest Chummer5e release from their GitHub releases page.


 * If all has worked without you requiring some professional level of Googling to solve your issues, you just have to run the following, every time you want to run Chummer. Make sure you’re in the directory where you extracted the .exe to and run: wine Chummer.exe