Playing in Linux

There is no official support for Oni on a family of Linux OSes.
However, it is possible to run the game on Linux.
It is also possible to run the AEInstaller application.

Requirements

Wine

An application used as a compatiblity layer in order to run Windows applications on a Linux machine.

For maximum convenience, install the Wine directly from an official repository of your given Linux distribution (it is natively supported by wide array of distros).

Wine 5.5 was tested to be be capable of flawlessly running Oni and AEInstaller.

Winetricks

Helper script for configuring various parts of Wine-created compatibility environments.

In some distros, Winetricks is installed alongside the Wine itself.

In other distors, it needs to be installed as a separate package.

Some legacy JAVA Runtime Environment offline installer for 32bit Windows XP.

Max compatible version is 7u65.

Unfortunately, the official Oracle download page requires subscription in order to download legacy versions of JRE.

An obscure link through legacy Sun Microsystems website (former developer of the JAVA platform) was found. The link ( click here ) can be used to download a JRE 7u25 offline installer.

Steps

1. Open a terminal and create a new WINEPREFIX (a new instance of the Wine compatibility environment) by using the following sequence of commands:

   export WINEARCH=win32

   export WINEPREFIX=full_path_to_the_folder_where_this_WINEPREFIX_will_be_located

   winecfg

2. There may be some text written into the terminal about some functions not supported and so on and so forth. Usually it is safe to ignore it.
   Eventually, a "Wine configuration" GUI window should appear.
3. On the "Applications" tab, change the Windows version to "Windows XP". Then click on the OK button.
4. TBD, bed time...