while im sure it runs fine under wine, i would like to have it run natively under linux. I think its just cause its a problem right now and i really really want to get it working, i dont like leaving problems unsolved.

just checked out that website, those are all windows builds. Im on linux running the linux version of the game. is there a similar site for linux?

ok cool thanks for that, is there somewhere i can keep an eye on to know when the next release of all those builds come out? and what is nightly build? i know what the client is obviously thats the game interface itself and the char-server but im unfamiliar with nightly.

I'm sorry demigod I'm afraid I do not understand what you are asking me.

running ubuntu 9.10

demigod were you able to determine anything from the tmw.log file?

tmw.log [19:36:11.80] The Mana World v0.0.29.1 (eAthena) [19:36:11.81] Initializing configuration... [19:36:11.84] Initializing SDL... [19:36:11.97] Initializing resource manager... [19:36:11.97] Adding to PhysicsFS: /home/haagimus//.tmw [19:36:11.97] Adding to PhysicsFS: /home/haagimus/eathena-data...

sorry new to forum cannot find an attach option on reply. only 3 logs are generated on TMW start: char.log, eathena-monitor.log and login.log Char.log 11-06-2010 05:06:06.412: The char-server starting... 11-06-2010 05:06:06.413: mmo_char_init: No character found in save/athena.txt. 11-06-2010 05:06:...

well its been a couple of days and i see that a lot of people are viewing this topic but noone is replying. I really really hope someone can help me with this problem because i would like to be able to play without relying on the internet. Please anyone that can help, help.

I will give all of this a try and get back to you guys asap. thanks for the quick response. EDIT: downloaded the mainline data folder, extracted it re-ran the terminal command with the -d trigger pointing to my tmwdata-mainline folder. I no longer get the cannot find Item.XML error however I'm now b...

So the short version is I used git and this walkthrough --http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Setting_up_eAthena_on_Linux did everything step by step and it all runs fine. I can log into TMW but after the update window closes when i click "play" it says "connecting to character ser...