Linux Setup Guide

DISCLAIMER: Linux is not officially supported by the Developer of EverQuest Legends (EQL). Any modifications related to your Linux environment to get EQL working properly should be taken at your own risk. This guide is simply here to help document what is known to have worked for other EQL players. Results may vary wildly based on differing hardware, Linux Distribution and Version, and middleware used to run EQL.

Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

This section is reserved for configurations related to Kubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release.

Setup with Wine

This configuration is specific to using Wine with Kubuntu 26.04 LTS. This configuration was successful with an up-to-date version of Kubuntu as of July 1st, 2026. My wine --version shows: wine-10.0 (Ubuntu 10.0~repack-12ubuntu1)

I followed the below steps to configure Wine to run EverQuest Legends on my system.

1. Create a directory to store related files and configurations for EQL
   1. mkdir ~/wine
   2. mkdir ~/wine/EverQuest-Legends
2. Use winecfg to initialize the directory
   1. WINEPREFIX=~/wine/EverQuest-Legends/ winecfg
3. Download the EverQuest Legends installer executable. For this walkthrough, we'll say it was saved at /home/user1/EQLegends_setup.exe
4. Use winetricks to add a few supporting packages. Note, these were suggested from some threads on regular EverQuest.
   1. WINEPREFIX=~/wine/EverQuest-Legends/ winetricks d3dx9
   2. WINEPREFIX=~/wine/EverQuest-Legends/ winetricks vcrun2022
   3. WINEPREFIX=~/wine/EverQuest-Legends/ winetricks d3dx11_43
5. Run the EQL installer in our Wine directory
   1. WINEPREFIX=~/wine/EverQuest-Legends/ wine /home/user1/EQLegends_setup.exe
6. Once it's done installing, you can run the LaunchPad directly. Feel free to cancel and test this.
   1. WINEPREFIX=~/wine/EverQuest-Legends/ wine-stable C:\\\\users\\\\Public\\\\Daybreak\\ Game\\ Company\\\\Installed\\ Games\\\\EverQuest\\ Legends\\\\LaunchPad.exe
7. (Optional) Create a Desktop Shortcut to make launching easier
   1. nano ~/.local/share/applications/EverQuest-Legends.desktop
   2. Use the following config [Desktop Entry] Name=EverQuest Legends Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/user1/wine/EverQuest-Legends" wine-stable C:\\\\users\\\\Public\\\\Daybreak\\ Game\\ Company\\\\Installed\\ Games\\\\EverQuest\\ Legends\\\\LaunchPad.exe Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path=/home/user1/wine/EverQuest-Legends/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Daybreak Game Company/Installed Games/EverQuest Legends Icon=FF36_LaunchPad.0 StartupWMClass=launchpad.exe

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