How to run LOIC using Wine

Assuming you have Ubuntu/Debian:

1. Download latest LOIC and extract.
2. Open a terminal and type (without the parenthesis) “sudo apt-get install wine” and wait for it to finish.
3. Type “wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks”.
4. Type “sh winetricks” and from the GUI select dotnet20, and install it.
5. Go to applications on your drop down and under Wine click on “Browse C: drive” then move the extracted LOIC to c:
6. Now, go to the extracted file and right-click LOIC.exe and click properties.
7. Go to permissions tab and check the box “Allow executing this file as program”.
8. Right click file again and under open application, select wine.

Addendum: Please refer to this issue for more recent instructions on getting wine installed on our system: LOIC#83

Wine instructions doesnt work directly as it mentioned here it needs some improvements:

There is Wine64 and Wine32 , apt install wine it will install wine64 because Debian and most distros deprecating/not using by default i386 architecture, so user need to specify the wine version.

Better refer the user to install wine on debian from the official website of winehq:

https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian

(why do we need 32bit? because loic architecture is 32bit)

Enjoy ;)