From the website.
'Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its
residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown
explosively and today is inhabited by nearly 100,000 people from around
the globe.'
NOTE: there is a native Linux client (latest release is in beta stage) available for Second Life.
It works very well, and is not missing any features that make the game unplayable.
You still cannot view streaming videos, or record videos with the Linux client.
The source is also available from the source archive.
Application Details:
| Version: | All Versions |
| License: | |
| URL: | http://www.secondlife.com |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.1.44 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Install, login, inventory and maps, creating, travel, communication.
What does not
Uploading sound, image, or animation files.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 17 2010 | 1.1.44 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 29 2009 | 1.1.26 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Dariusz Wiatrak | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 18 2009 | 1.1.25 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Simon Philipp | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | May 01 2008 | 0.9.59. | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Sara Aishiko Bird | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 10 2008 | 0.9.57. | Yes | Yes | Silver | javier fernandez |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
HOWTO, Install.
Installing Second Life using wine is a
fairly straightforward process.
First you will need to download the latest version, older versions are useless, you wont even be able to log in with an older version.
Install as you normally would with any other standard windows program,
When it asks "Would you like to run Second Life now?", say No.
Now run winecfg and set it up so that (at least for secondlife.exe) wine is running as "winxp", and sound is set to "oss".
Using ALSA causes Second Life to give an error about your system clock being incorrect when you try to log in.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Simon Philipp on Monday August 10th 2009, 19:20
The only colors I see are black, blue, green, and red.
Using GNOME on Ubuntu 9.04. GDM must be restarted to fix.
by Matt Burchett on Tuesday August 25th 2009, 15:40
So I don't know how to go about this, I don't wanna have to restart GDM everytime I wanna do something after I get outta SL.
by EG Galano on Friday October 15th 2010, 14:06
xgamma -g 1
This should restore the colors to its original state.
by Sara Aishiko Bird on Thursday May 1st 2008, 4:40
by Lisa Denia on Sunday January 27th 2008, 22:19
But if you start a video and stop it immediately, Second Life will crash. You can walk around, do things etc. after that, but movies won't play anymore. You will have to restart Second Life.
By the way, I can run and use SecondLife with ALSA sound backend. Running Ubuntu 7.10.
SHA1 sums:
7155043f6fdde3b5f5700b44fc522766c35406bd QuickTime740Installer.exe
a68cc318c662be5b976767ef2b9d1ff3f0c6e658 Second_Life_1-18-5-3_Setup.exe
by javier fernandez on Sunday January 27th 2008, 23:49
by rotsee on Sunday September 24th 2006, 13:21
I'm a Linux and Wine newbie, so please be patient with me, but when I try starting Second Life with Wine on either my Ubuntu 6 or my Fedora 5 machine I get a warning message telling me that DirectX 9.x could not be found. Ignoring this will cause the application to crash, telling me that no suitable pixel format was to be found and leaving the colours of my display all mixed up. Any suggestions? I run Wine in Windows XP mode.
by Caroline Ford on Sunday August 13th 2006, 12:43
secondlife.com/community/linux-alpha.php
by Stephen E. on Tuesday September 12th 2006, 4:16
Sound does work in the alpha linux client (Ubuntu Dapper) (as of 9.10.06).
by javier fernandez on Sunday January 27th 2008, 23:53
by Guardian on Sunday July 30th 2006, 14:53
I've tried Fedora core 5, and Suse 10.1
The problem is, I always get "you are not running 32 bit color, co to control panel...."
I've tried the -ignorepixeldepth -noprobe switches, but still no go!
if anyone could help, it would be appricated, as I wiped FC4 and put suse on, and even bought a Nvidia graphics card!
by javier fernandez on Thursday October 25th 2007, 11:17
i have fix this issue by installing restricted drivers to my graphics card... which one do you have?
by javier fernandez on Thursday October 25th 2007, 12:51
to fix the 32-bit color problem you must install the restricted driver for it
by Guardian on Friday July 14th 2006, 17:29
Install and run Second life in windows, change the mode to windowed from fullscreen, then copy the settings.ini password.dat and crashsettings.dat from your user profile in XP
(ie c:\Documents and settings\yourname\application data\secondlife)
to your profile under wine
(ie /home/yourname/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/yourname/application data/secondlife)
and it should now work in window mode
I tried adding a FULLSCREEN FALSE in the settings ini, but it won't work, you need a full working ini file.