Simpler version of this whole post (to save your time if your familiar with terminals and troubleshooting):
Extract the files.
Open your favorite terminal.
cd to /somedir/df_linux
then type ./df
Yay (wow it thinks "yay" isn't a word
), I'm not the only one using Linux. I can help you on getting the Linux version of the game to run, but not Dwarf Therapist, and I'll explain it as simply as I can. Download the Linux version, then find where it is located (it will be the box that is labeled "df_31_18_linux.tar.bz2), probably in Home/(Your account name here)/Downloads. Extract it by right clicking, and click "Extract here", then it will extract and then
the computer will automatically name the file df_linux, it will end up in the Downloads folder too. If I were you, I'd move the df_linux file into your account folder (the one after home, labeled your account name if you haven't figured that out yet
) to make the next step easier.
After that, go into your favorite terminal (If you don't know what that is, PLEASE look it up as you won't be able to use Linux like your supposed to.) and type in one of the following:
If you did not move the file into your account folder, type this into your terminal (don't forget to capitalize D)
cd Downloads/df_linux
If you did move the file into your account folder, type this:
cd df_linux
Now type in (./df) (without the perenthesis, so just ./df) and the game should run, UNLESS you don't have the libraries you need, IN SUCH A CASE, I can only help you partway. If it tells you it cannot find a certain library, tell me, and I might be able to put up the command you need to put in the terminal to get it, but I'll tell you the 2 I had to do (plus one the wiki says you might need):
(I did NOT have to do this one, you might though) Type into your terminal: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs getlibs
(I had to do this one) Type into your terminal: sudo getlibs -l libSDL_image-1.2.so.0
(I also had to do this one) And also type into your terminal: sudo apt-get install libSDL-ttf2.0-0
Some of those it might say it already has, good for you! You just wasted about 3 seconds typing someting you didn't need but anyway... Every time you want to run the game on Linux again, you'll have to type into your terminal:
cd df_linux
./df
Hope I helped, and that I didn't just waste about 2 minutes of your time to read this when you might want to run it on wine anyway.