There is a lot of interest out there in running Metatrader 4 on the Linux platform, however until Metaquotes does a native Linux version, the only option if you want to do it is to run it under WINE emulation.
What follows is a step by step guide to installing MT4 in Linux. I have used the excellent Ubuntu distribution for this task.
1) Install WINE if it's not already installed. I used version 0.9.33. Please refer to The Ubuntu Wiki for advanced WINE setup instructions.
2) From a valid windows installation, copy over all the fonts into your wine installation. It assumes you told Ubuntu to mount your windows partition in /windows.
Code:
cp /windows/WINDOWS/Fonts/* ~/.wine/c/windows/fonts/
3) Copy 2 needed DLL files from your valid windows installation.
Code:
cp /windows/WINDOWS/system32/mfc4* ~/.wine/c/windows/system32/
4)
Download mt4setup from FXOpen
5) Install MT4.
6) You should now have an icon on your Desktop and a working install of MT4 under Linux!
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