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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura[./play.it] Install Arcanum on Linux(22 posts)(22 posts)
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Posted September 05, 2017
Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you can find informations about ./play.it, a tool building packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your installers for Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
These packages can be installed easily with your favourite packages manager.

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following page:
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

We hope you will enjoy the ease-of-use provided by this tool as much as we enjoy writing and tweaking it ;)

Here you go for more supported games!

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Salut camarades Linuxiens !

Vous trouverez ici des informations à propos de ./play.it, un outil construisant des paquets pour Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo ou nʼimporte quelle distribution dérivée de celles-ci (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) à partir de vos installateurs pour Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
Ces paquets sʼinstallent facilement via votre gestionnaire de paquets habituel.

Les liens de téléchargement et les instructions dʼutilisation se trouvent sur la page suivante :
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Nous espérons que vous apprécierez le confort apporté par cet outil autant que nous apprécions lʼécrire et lʼaméliorer ;)

Pour plus de jeux, rendez-vous par ici !
Post edited February 21, 2021 by vv221
Posted April 05, 2018
The most recent GOG installers are not supported for this game, as they use a new, obfuscated packaging scheme.

The latest supported installer is the following one:
setup_arcanum_2.0.0.15.exe (MD5: c09523c61edd18abb97da97463e07a88)

If you didn’t keep a copy of this installer and want to use the ./play.it script, you need to request a download link from GOG support.
Post edited April 05, 2018 by vv221
Posted August 22, 2018
Update

Since ./play.it 2.10, we support the new packaging format used by GOG for Windows games.

New supported installer:
setup_arcanum_-_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura_1.0.7.4_(19476).exe

Run the game in a WINE virtual desktop by default, to avoid issues with some video drivers.
Posted March 27, 2019
⚠ Following instructions are no longer useful, current ./play.it script has support for innoextract 1.8

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The latest GOG installer for Arcanum is not officially supported by ./play.it yet, but it already works on our development version.
The process is a bit trickier than with our usual scripts, as we don't have support for InnoSetup 5.6.2 (the packaging format currently used for Arcanum GOG latest installer).

Here is a small guide to get it working.

1. Install innoextract 1.8 development version

Install innoextract build dependencies, then:
git clone https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract.git ~/innoextract.git
mkdir ~/innoextract.git/build
cd ~/innoextract.git/build
cmake ..
make
mkdir ~/bin
cp innoextract ~/bin/
cd
rm --force --recursive ~/innoextract.git
 
2. Install the patched ./play.it library allowing to use the development version of innoextract + the development version of the ./play.it script for Arcanum
 
git clone https://framagit.org/vv221/play.it.git ~/play.it.git
cd ~/play.it.git
git checkout dev-2.x/games/update/arcanum/new-archive
./play.it-2/patches/skip-innoextract-version-check.sh
make
make install
cd
rm --force --recursive ~/play.it.git
 
3. Run the ./play.it script

Open a terminal in the directory including the Arcanum installer, then:
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
play.it "./setup_arcanum_-_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura_1.0.7.4_hotfix_(24155).exe"
 
4. Follow the instructions given by the script to install the game

5. Enjoy ;)
Post edited October 23, 2019 by vv221
Posted October 13, 2019
Update

* New supported installer:
    - setup_arcanum_-_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura_1.0.7.4_hotfix_(24155).exe
Posted November 01, 2019
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vv221: Update

* New supported installer:
- setup_arcanum_-_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura_1.0.7.4_hotfix_(24155).exe
Hello there! Quick question, how easy would it be to apply the new unofficial patch on this? How would one go about doing it? Is it possible for the play.it script to detect and apply it automatically?

http://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.html

Thanks for your time.
Posted November 01, 2019
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sunshinecorp: (…)
I didn’t know that there is a new patch, I was still using the Unofficial Arcanum Patch v091225.
I’ll try to find some time to tinker with this new one.
Posted November 01, 2019
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sunshinecorp: (…)
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vv221: I didn’t know that there is a new patch, I was still using the Unofficial Arcanum Patch v091225.
I’ll try to find some time to tinker with this new one.
Yup. Just found out about it too!
Posted December 10, 2019
Just out of curiosity, but I assume these scripts only work with the Gog installers, and those of us who happen to own this game on the original shiny discs it came on back in the day are out of luck?
Posted December 11, 2019
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jrial: (…)
You’re right, we don’t have CD-ROM support… yet ;)

It’s in the works, we actually have a dedicated issue on our forge, but we are a small team with not as much free time as we would like to dedicated to this. So it’s going much slower than I had hoped.
Posted April 04, 2020
Guys... seriously! This is an amazing amount of work, it's awesome!!

I had to upgrade my version of innoextract past what is in the Ubuntu (18.04) packages, using the instructions constexpr dot org
Posted April 04, 2020
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hillahilla: Guys... seriously! This is an amazing amount of work, it's awesome!!
Thanks!
./play.it is indeed the fruit of years of work, still ongoing… But there is a lot of fun to be found in this work ;)

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hillahilla: I had to upgrade my version of innoextract past what is in the Ubuntu (18.04) packages, using the instructions constexpr dot org
Right, recent Windows installers provided by GOG require innoextract ≥ 1.8 for data extraction, but Ubuntu 18.04 comes with older 1.6 release.

If other people get the same issue, here are the official instructions on how to install recent innoextract releases on Ubuntu.
Posted February 21, 2021
Hello,

Your Fallout 2 script worked like a charm for me on my Chromebook, so I appreciate what you do. Looking at Arcanum I was wondering if there was ever a script for installing the Unofficial Patch?

Thanks so much
Posted February 21, 2021
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Superdog: (…)
The current ./play.it version only handles the installation of the original game, not the unofficial patches and mods. You would have to install these yourself afterwards.

From what I see there has been huge changes between the latest "classic" Unofficial Patch (UAP091225.exe) and the new current one (UAP2.0.2.exe). I’ll try to find some time to add ./play.it support for the classic one first, as it seems much lighter and easier to handle. If it goes well I’ll see about the new one too.
Posted February 27, 2021
The error I get is
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"

Seemingly I have screwed up my Wine installation again except my my other game that uses WINE seem to work okay. I wonder if it's some kind of graphical or display problem.
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