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• Author: admin
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• Date: June - 17 - 2010

How to install Metatrader 4 under Linux!

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 wine-1.2-rc3 . 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. (You really only need webdings and wingding if you don’t have windows at all. Use google to find them )

cp /windows/WINDOWS/Fonts/* ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

3) Copy 2 needed mfc4x DLL and msvcp60.dll files from your valid windows installation. (Again use google to find the DLLs for download if you don’t have windows)

cp /windows/WINDOWS/system32/mfc4* ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

cp /windows/WINDOWS/system32/msvcp60.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

4) Download mt4setup from FXOpen

5) Change to the folder where you downloaded it and Install MT4.

wine mt4setup.exe

6) You should now have an icon on your Desktop and a working install of MT4 under Linux!

* Please note, in order to set a limit/stop order without an invalid parameters error you need just to remove the expiry(Uncheck the box under the entry price).

Metatrader 4 on Ubuntu Linux