Revive Your Inner Carjacker: GTA2 on Linux | Linux Today

Revive Your Inner Carjacker: GTA2 on Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 16, 2007

“Rockstar Games has been kind enough to release some of their
classics for free download–including Grand Theft Auto and Grand
Theft Auto 2. All you need to do is supply some basic information,
and download away. Here’s a quick howto on how to get GTA2 running
under WINE. So get ready to blow up some hummers and hos!

“The first thing you’ll want to do is install WINE. On Ubuntu,
Debian, or PCLinuxOS, this is as easy as sudo apt-get install wine.
On other distros, you’ll want to use your supplied package manager,
or visit the home page to install from source or contributed
package…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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