tested for Dofus 2.72

Install wine

Install wine using your distro’s package manager.

Download the Ankama Launcher AppImage

You can find it here: Ankama Launcher

Run the launcher:

chmod +x Ankama\ Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage

./Ankama\ Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage

Note: If you’re using NixOS you need the appimage-run package to execute the AppImage.

nix-shell -p appimage-run

appimage-run ./Ankama\ Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage

Connect to your Ankama account and download Dofus

To login you will be redirected to the Ankama website, after you login you will be redirected back to the launcher. I couldn’t login using firefox (my default browser) so I copied the link in chromium and it worked. Once you’re logged in you can download Dofus. There shouldn’t be any problems with the download. Please remember where you install the game since it will be needed later.

Run Dofus

After the download is complete you can run Dofus from the launcher.But you’ll probably stunble upon a problem on the class selection screen. wine error There’s a problem with the video presentation of the characters. To fix this you just need to delete or rename the directory containing the cinematics so the game don’t find them. Move to the game’s directory and rename the cinematics directory:

mv content/gfx/cinematics content/gfx/cinematics_DISABLE

Now you can now run the game from the launcher and it should work fine.You’re just missing the video presentation of the characters (you’re going to see a black rectangle instead) but they are not very important.

Final note

If you’re playing on a restricted network and can’t connect to the game you can change the connection port in the game’s configuration. Run the launcher then go to the Dofus page and click the settings icon under the play button. You can change the connection port from 5555 to 443.