Diablo II is usually a breeze to run on Linux, thanks to WINE and so often times. Diablo requires that you have Microsoft's DirectX 3.0 installed, and that your video . so rest assured, I know the pathway all.” -Dante. install it, then “manually add game” using Wine as runner and setting the path to diablo II.exe yourself. If everything goes wrong, you can try a manual installation. None of the install scripts result in a playable game.