How to install MUSHclient under Ubuntu (Linux)

This is how I got MUSHclient to work under Ubuntu (Linux) version 7.04. I used a stand-alone boot disk, so this is from a totally clean install.

First step was to download the MUSHclient installer from this web site and save to the desktop:

Next I had to install Wine (you can skip this step if you have Wine installed already)

Installation instructions for Wine are at http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb. I followed those instructions by opening a Terminal window from the Ubuntu Applications menu:

I then typed (copied and pasted, actually) the following instructions from the Wine web site:

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wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine

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These instructions may be out of date after December 2007, I suggest you check the current install instructions at the winehq web site.

Now that we have Wine installed, we need to install MUSHclient. Since I had the installer on my desktop I typed:

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cd Desktop

wine mushclient418.exe

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This ran the standard installer, which created the usual files. Now to actually execute MUSHclient:

When it starts you get a couple of messages about the initial installation, and "can't start help". I used the Connection menu -> Quick Connect to connect to a MUD and saw this:

The font looks a bit strange, so I edited the Output configuration and changed it:

Ditto for the input font, and the font colour:

After doing that the display looks quite respectable:

The problem with the command window having a black background has been fixed in version 4.19.

Installing WINE under Ubuntu is actually easier than that.

In the 'Applications' menu select 'Add/Remove...'
Select 'All' from the list.
Enter 'wine' into the search field.
Select 'All available applications' from the Show dropdown list.

See screenshot:
http://www.houseofghoulsmud.com/images/screenshot-install-wine.png
(Can't make an image in the post, but there's the link to it.)

Under Wine some help functions don't appear to work.

As an alternative, recent versions ship with the help information in a database. This can be accessed by installing the plugin: MUSHclient_Help (this ships with MUSHclient in the plugins directory).

Use the File menu -> Plugins to add this plugin.

Then all of the help topics can be accessed by typing "mchelp <topic>", eg.



Other examples:



The use of the "name:" prefix limits searches to the name of a topic (eg. a function name) rather than merely a reference to it in the description somewhere.

Matching topics will be shown in the output window with hyperlinks. Just click on one of them to have that topic expanded.