I had some bad luck and lost a drive with my games on it. I decided to download my copy of Pillars of Eternity and install it on my Lubuntu Linux laptop. I'm solely on 64-bit Linux, don't use WINE, don't use the GOG installer.

So, I get this error about not finding "mojosetup". Hmm, ok. Haven't ever seen that before. I had originally installed PoE on my desktop, which runs the same 64-bit Lubuntu distro as my laptop, simply by executing the shell script which apparently installed the necessary support files and the game.

The error: trying mojosetup in /bin/linux/x86_64

There is no /bin/linux/x86_64 directory nor should there be. /bin is a system directory that shouldn't be written to by program installers. I'm wondering if the recent download I've done was packaged up properly with the necessary install programs.

Any assistance or insight is appreciated.

Cheers and thanks.

If you get issues with the GOG installer, you might want to give a try to ./play.it.

It is an open source command-line software that generates native packages (.deb for Debian, .pkg.tar for Arch Linux, etc.) from GOG installers, then lets your packages manager handle the actual installation process.

By the way, it is available from Ubuntu official repositories: https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/play.it

...So how did you try and do this?

Did you make the script executable first?

maybe corrupt download
try to unzip and/or download again?

Thanks for the responses folks. To answer your questions ...

I did make the script executable. I tried installing as sudo and as a user. I downloaded it again thinking maybe it was corrupted. No changes. I also tried opening as an archive using various techniques but again, no dice.

I'll give w221's suggestion a try and see if play.it will work.

I'll post back with the results. Cheers.

Well, things went well with creating .deb files using play.it so I thank you for creating the conversion scripts and bringing them to my attention. I just followed the instructions and fixed the problem. :)

It's a shame the GOG doesn't seem to be aware, or is aware but isn't concerned with remedying the installation problem on their end of things. But, that's the way it goes I guess.

Cheers.

Thanks for the feedback, I’m happy to know that ./play.it helped working around your issues with GOG installers ;)