HOWTO: Run mIRC on Ubuntu Linux
Back in the day, before I saw the light of Linux, I was an mIRC user. I’d grown quite fond of mIRC, and even registered it to support Khaled Mardam-Bey.
However, now that I’m slowly attempting to move the majority of my major activities to Linux, I’ve found that I don’t really like the majority of the graphical IRC clients available for Linux. Xchat is nice, and Konversation is probably my favorite of them, but I yearned for mIRC. Pidgin and Kopete use too much of an IM-style window for it, especially the latter.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, mIRC works out of the box using Wine.
Download the installer from mirc.com to your home directory or Desktop. Fire up a terminal and do wine mircSetup.exe. Be sure to replace mircSetup.exe with the actual name of the executable. For me, it was mirc63.exe. Also, make sure that you have Wine installed (sudo apt-get install wine) and configured (winecfg).
Once it’s installed, you can execute it with wine C:\\Program\ Files\\mIRC\\mirc.exe. I’d recommend creating an application launcher for it on Gnome-panel or KDE Kicker. You can use the post icon as the icon for the launcher.
If the fonts look odd, you can install msttcorefonts with sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts and it should look better. Additionally, find a nice Windows theme somewhere and use it to make the Wine windows look more like the Human theme of Ubuntu. If you find such a theme, comment below so I can get it, too 
The Flow of Consciousness » HOWTO: Great Windows theme for Wine on Ubuntu:
[...] this with the mIRC on Linux tutorial from a few weeks ago, and the result is an mIRC that looks like it belongs in [...]
27 October 2007, 4:19 pmmirc:
thanks a lot..
6 April 2008, 6:52 pmdoez:
thanks’
2 May 2008, 9:11 pmUbuntu:
wow! works perfect. thanks
24 May 2008, 10:38 amMirc:
This doesnt work for me sadly
It says something about
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
So yeah, if you could help me it would be tremendously appreciated!
29 June 2008, 11:51 amIzazel:
It’s nice having wine with your computer, rather than by your self. Thanks for the use full info.
4 June 2009, 1:53 pmK-Z:
Thnx…thts a grt help….
28 February 2010, 11:16 pmbackTO1717:
Thank you alot
… it was very usefull
13 August 2011, 1:32 pm