Your distro may vary. Here I will include the packages and install process for Archlinux.

If you would like to run Archlinux, follow the wiki at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Getting_and_installing_Arch
and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

This is much easier with v20 of the install, but there are a few steps that aren't obvious.

== Installing Wine ==

For Archlinux:

-- Add [multilib] to repos

$ sudo vim /etc/pacman.conf

Uncomment the following lines by removing the '#':

   #[multilib]
   #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
   

-- Update packages and install wine

   $ sudo pacman -Syy
   $ sudo pacman -S wine
    

-- Important!! Create a 32 bit WINEPREFIX (NEVER RUN WINE WITH SUDO OR AS SU!!)

   $ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.nasomi" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot
   

Use ~/.nasomi or whatever folder you choose. The folder must not already exist. Use a new one.

Next you will need to have wine run its initial setup. Exit out after this.

   $ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.nasomi" winecfg
    

-- Now and after every wine update, replace /usr/lib32/wine/imm32.dll.so with the patched version:

Download http://nabutso.com:4438/FFXI/imm32.dll.so

   $ sudo cp ~/Downloads/imm32.dll.so /usr/lib32/wine/
        

Or from wherever your downloads folder is

-- Run the v20 installer

Download ftp://nasomi.com/NasomiXI.v20.zip

Unzip the thing

   $ cd ~/Downloads
   $ unzip NasomiXI.v20.zip
   

Run the thing

   $ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.nasomi" wine ~/Downloads/NasomiXI.exe
   

Follow the installer exactly. It will install vcrun2015

== Running NasomiXI ==

You can test out the install by running it

   $ WINEPREFIX=~/.nasomi/  wine ~/.nasomi/drive_c/Program\ Files/NasomiXI/SquareEnix/Ashita/ffxi-bootmod/boot.exe --user UserName --pass PassWord
   

You will need to tweak your settings using regedit. Here are the ones I recommend:


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Where it says 1280 and 720, you should set to whatever your current resolution is. The 640 and 480 are
menu resolution and for 1280x720 I prefer that size. Experiment, but use a 4:3 setting because even though
I have a 16:9 resolution anything in 16:9 for the menu resolution didn't look right.

Go to http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Graphics for more information.

You should also enable these settings for direct3d, although I still haven't found the right ones.
Let me know if you find better settings.

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Go to https://wiki.winehq.org/Useful_Registry_Keys for more information.

== Installing antimicro ==

This is completely optional, but I use antimicro to remap the start/r3 button to pgup/pgdown to
zoom in/out as well as a little macro to take a screenshot with scrot

antimicro is an AUR package, so either install it with pacaur or manually.

-- To manually install from AUR, follow the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages

antimicro: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/antimicro/

-- With pacaur, which is, itself, in the AUR

   $ sudo pacman -Syy
   $ pacaur -Sa antimicro
   

The program is pretty straightforward. For any help consult the docs available.

== misc. odds and ends ==

When running in fullscreen, at least for me in i3, there will be leftover stuff on the bottom.
I don't quite know how to fix this, but I have a nice workaround. I created a wallpaper that's
completely black in gimp, load the image with feh, put it in a separate workspace and fullscreen it.
It's slightly annoying but not too much. You just have to switch to it before you switch to the
FFXI workspace. I put FFXI in workspace 0 and the image in workspace 9 so I can do it in one motion.

That should be the end of the install.

== Here's a nice script to put into /usr/local/bin/FFXI-nasomi so you can run from terminal or launcher ==

   #!/usr/bin/bash

   ## Uncomment if you have nvidia-settings and want performance powermizer mode
   # nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1 > /dev/null &

   feh ~/Wallpaper > /dev/null &

   antimicro > /dev/null &

   # This boot.exe already flags --server na.nasomi.com and --hairpin
   WINEPREFIX=~/.nasomi/  wine ~/.nasomi/drive_c/Program\ Files/NasomiXI/SquareEnix/Ashita/ffxi\
   -bootmod/boot.exe --user UserName --pass PassWord

   ## Uncomment if you have nvidia-settings and wish to return to adaptive powermizer mode when closing
   # nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=0 > /dev/null &
   

See you on Nasomi server!

This is extremely useful for linux users; I'll find some time to test it when I get some but it does look pretty good!

Editing the paths and adding notes to the wiki one is a better idea than this thread. http://nasomi.com/wiki/index.php?title= ... using_WINE

It was edited to remove things that the older installer needed, but not entirely.

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i'm trying to set this up in Debian, but the installer .exe crashes immediately ("Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to etc etc") when i do the

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.nasomi" wine ~/Downloads/NasomiXI.exe

step. kind of stuck! any ideas?

Just install it normaly.

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maybe i'll try this next, but the crashes randomly stopped, don't think i changed anything... maybe they just happen sometimes and i got unlucky until now. will update.

I included that step because Archlinux only allows 64-bit architectures, so users must multiarch in order to get highest compatibility with wine(a 32-bit package) which is why I included the step to uncomment the [multilib] repo.

I am not sure what your setup is, or if you are 32-bit or 64-bit. If 32 bit,(i686) you can make a wineprefix normally. If 64 bit, you might need to install lib32 packages through your package manager.
https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO

that helped, thank you!

is there a way to get the provided Ashita plugins working with this method?

No, because Ashita won't run on linux through wine in any way.

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i'm pretty sure i saw someone got ashita working with wine staging. not sure what that all entails though.