Recently I had to update my skill queue, but no Windows system was available, just my notebook which uses Ubuntu as operating system. So how to run EVE on it?

Answer: use wine.

I heard about the program before, and knew they recently released version 1.4 were they made a few things easier, yet I did not expect it was that easy.

Here are all commands needed to install wine and EVE:

# Get wine
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get install wine
 
# Install required components
winetricks allfonts
winetricks directx9
winetricks vcrun2005sp1
winetricks vcrun2010
 
# Get the EVE installer
wget http://content.eveonline.com/351477/EVE_Online_Installer_351477.exe
wget http://content.eveonline.com/351477/eveonline_351477_1of2.7z
wget http://content.eveonline.com/351477/eveonline_351477_2of2.7z
 
# Launch the installer
wine EVE_Online_Installer_351477.exe

Now you can install EVE just like on Windows. Once you are done you get a Launcher right on your Desktop. Double – click it and go!

There are some limitations of course, eg.: some people reported problems with walking in stations or crashed when running in windowed mode. But when you need to update your PI, Production stuff, Market orders or – like in my case – your skill queue, there is no problem with that.