Linux

After three days of fruitless trials and fixes, I finally got things working tonight, so for those still looking for a fix, here's what I've done;
I installed wine-1.4-rc6 (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa), downloaded the eve offline installer (http://community.eveonline.com/download/?fallback=1&), and then went on to a terminal window to do the following:

winecfg (this is just to set up the environment, so just quit)
cd ~/.wine/drive_c
winetricks vcrun2008
winetricks vcrun2010
wine EVE_Online_Installer_351477.exe (default settings)
winetricks corefonts
wine msiexec /i msxml3.msi (from http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-XML-Parser-MSXML-3-0-Service-Pack-7-SP7/3000-7241_4-10731613.html)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="*msvcrt,*msvcr100,*msvcr80=b,n" wine Program\ Files/CCP/EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe

(wine was updated to 1.5 later tonight, and it still works)
*NOTE* for me this dosen't work with ".../EVE/eve.exe" - the launcher starts but it can't launch the client. I guess it needs some more winetricks applied to work with the launcher.

Today the client also started to work under PlayOnLinux (http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html) again, wine 1.4rc6/1.4/1.5, plus loads of librarys/dlls installed - which is how I usually run it, since before Crucible 1.5. Load flags for all libraries are left at default, except *msvcrt, *msvcr100, *msvcr80, *msvcr90, which are set to "builtin then native". This installation runs the launcher and repairer as well, but might fail to update the client through the launcher (see other posts for fixes, or use the offline installer - repairing a broken update with the repairer v3.45, http://cdn1.eveonline.com/client_repair/345/repair.exe, has worked for me).

Both variants works in windowed, fixed window and full screen. Captains Quarter doesn't work, as per usual (actually, it works once in a blue moon - I had it running once tonight).

This is basically just putting all previous knowledge in this and a few other threads to good use, but it still didn't work until late yesterday. Strangley enough, the PlayOnLinux installlation is the same now as it has been for 48 hours, only difference is that it works now. It started to work just after the plain wine installation started to work - and no, they don't share any files or settings. I can selectively break each by "winetricking" them or even delete one or the other (there was one system update today - totally unrelated [*tm], but, well, I don't know, maybe it's the moon phase?). The PlayOnLinux "user.reg" has the following relevant Direct3d settings: "DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl", "Multisampling"="disabled", "OffscreenRenderingMode"="pbuffer", "PixelShaderMode"="enabled", "UseGLSL"="enabled", "VideoMemorySize"="512". The plain wine version has none.

Platform: Ubuntu 64bit 11.04 Natty 2.6.38-13-generic, no fancy desktop thingys, like Unity, Compiz - or wallpaper :). AMD 6-core Phenom II, 8GB, AMD (ATI actually) 3870 512MB with proprietary drivers (fglrx), One Desktop spread out over two screens (Xinerama), RandR 1.2.

My "favorite" reading since the patch struck:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=80365 ("issues" thread)
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=79999 (this thread)
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=80447

It works (somewhat) for me. Even though

step 1: removing wine-dir
rm -rf ~/.wine

step 2 (optional): compiling and installing wine 1.5
I used the git version but the binaries should work too

step 3: creating a test dir and setting prefix
i made one in /media/data/winetest
export WINEPREFIX=/media/data/wineprefix
downloaded the winetricks stuff
winetricks corefonts vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 d3dx9_43

step 4: downloading the eve-client
export WINEPREFIX=/media/data/wineprefix (had to open new terminal)
wget http://content.eveonline.com/351477/EVE_Online_Installer_351477-2.exe
wine EVE_Online_Installer_351477-2.exe
do the next, next, next, install, finish routine

step 5: creating the shell-scripts
i copied the ones here: linky
changed the prefix to my situation (/media/data/winetest)

step 6 disabling walking in stations
logged in, stopped at character screen, whent to options, disabled'load station environment' clicked at character.

worked for me.

Works like a charm!

Any upgrade for this alias to run in windowed mode, Karak?

Awesome, thx for the explanation.

Publius,
I had the same problem (python27.dll error) when I wanted to start the launcher before I tried Karak's solution.
Give it a try.

You can download the latest stable and development version as a .deb-file from the WINE website and install it with dpkg -i, too.

I also was able to patch the launcher through this method. It's only launcher updates that are affected.

1. winecfg
2. Change the libraries from builtin,native to native,builtin for patching
3. Start eve, and let it patch.
4. Do winecfg and change back to builtin,native.
5. Start eve, your launcher is patched, so just go.

Nice job, Publius Victrix.

Could be a problem with the locales. Try setting them to en_US.UTF-8 before you start WINE:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
wine ...

I did not need to change my dll overrides in wine to succesfully run the launcher and install todays patch, so I am pretty sure our launcher problems are also behind us for now.

Iv done all the steps i try to launch eve and the launcher loads i click play and i get a black screen.... any ideas?