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General discussionNEWS: Revamping Linux installers for all GOG.com games(192 posts)(192 posts)
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Posted August 11, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: Thanks! Well, in that case it's certainly better than it could have been.

EDIT: wait...are the .deb packages gone too?
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classicgogger: Yes.
Huh.
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Also Ciris' post mentioned the new installers being distro agnostic. Does that mean that GOG will be officially supporting more distros than Ubuntu/Mint now? Might be a pretty bold move.
Post edited August 11, 2015 by BillyMaysFan59
Posted August 11, 2015
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classicgogger: Yes.
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BillyMaysFan59: Huh.
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Also Ciris' post mentioned the new installers being distro agnostic. Does that mean that GOG will be officially supporting more distros than Ubuntu/Mint now? Might be a pretty bold move.
No, there are no plans to support more distros ATM.
Posted August 11, 2015
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linuxvangog: Hello there! As we learned from our already year old Linux support, having two formats instead of one was the cause of the confusion among some users. New installers introduce many features that were not reachable with older forms of distribution we used, such as differential patches that will make updating your games way easier :)
Hide tarball downloads under "Advanced Options" in account section or something.

Mojo's pretty great though, good idea to make the switch. Made a few of my own a while ago, can essentially treat them like tarballs since they have fairly extensible command line options. Still, would like tarballs so I could master my own collections or something.

Further, don't use $HOME. $HOME isn't defined on some distributions by default. When looking for a user's home you should always use ~/. Unless you were just talking about $HOME for simplicity's sake with the post.
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Posted August 11, 2015
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TheJoe: (...) snip

Further, don't use $HOME. $HOME isn't defined on some distributions by default. When looking for a user's home you should always use ~/. Unless you were just talking about $HOME for simplicity's sake with the post.
Well, from my experience the $HOME variable is more dependable than the tilde (~), but yes, I meant it as 'the user home folder'.
Posted August 11, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: Huh.
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Also Ciris' post mentioned the new installers being distro agnostic. Does that mean that GOG will be officially supporting more distros than Ubuntu/Mint now? Might be a pretty bold move.
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Ciris: No, there are no plans to support more distros ATM.
I see.

So your official verdict on other distros is still pretty much "go ahead and try it at your own risk, but we can't offer support". Fair enough.

Joe had a good suggestion though: hide tar files under "Advanced Options", or create an "Other" dropdown menu in the downloads section.
Posted August 11, 2015
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linuxvangog: Well, from my experience the $HOME variable is more dependable than the tilde (~), but yes, I meant it as 'the user home folder'.
Really? I guess the distros GOG supports would have it declared by default so it doesn't really matter. Did just check an installer and couldn't find any reference to the variable so I guess it's a non-issue anyway.

Anyway - thanks for the upgrade. These new installers really are great, just too bad I have to download them all again :D
Posted August 11, 2015
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Ciris: No, there are no plans to support more distros ATM.
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BillyMaysFan59: I see.

So your official verdict on other distros is still pretty much "go ahead and try it at your own risk, but we can't offer support". Fair enough.

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More like: if you want to try, we don't want to make it difficult to you ;)
Posted August 11, 2015
Great news. Any ETA on Galaxy for Linux?
Posted August 11, 2015
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TheJoe: Further, don't use $HOME. $HOME isn't defined on some distributions by default. When looking for a user's home you should always use ~/. Unless you were just talking about $HOME for simplicity's sake with the post.
never seen a distribution where $HOME wasn't defined. iirc the variable is set whenever you login into a console/telnet/ssh/ session. or by xdm & co.
and at least bash uses $HOME to perform tilde expansion.
Posted August 11, 2015
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linuxvangog: And, honestly it is more simple for us to maintain a single format for games, instead of two :) We want to give the freedom of choice to our users. The new installers are meant to be installed in any localtion in your $HOME folder (while $HOME/GOG Games is recommended), because installing games system-wide is not exactly the best solution, because of many problems with file mode bits (e.g. some games creating save/configuration files in their root folders).
Installing games in the $HOME folder has also disadvantages for multi-user systems. I would like an option like $HOME or /opt for example.
Posted August 11, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: I see.

So your official verdict on other distros is still pretty much "go ahead and try it at your own risk, but we can't offer support". Fair enough.

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linuxvangog: More like: if you want to try, we don't want to make it difficult to you ;)
That too. =)
Posted August 11, 2015
Sounds like I'll have to give this a shot tonight. Last week I just finished my work into downloading my entire GOG library because of a NAS failure. At least this time I only need to get the new Linux builds.
Posted August 11, 2015
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Kristian: Great news. Any ETA on Galaxy for Linux?
None that I'm aware of - the Galaxy team is working hard on bug fixes and implementing the features that we consider key to the client (and seeing what issues may pop up then) before we start bringing it to another system. Keep following our news updates, though, and you'll be sure to hear of any GOG Galaxy Linux news in the future :)
Posted August 11, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: Hmmmm, I'll have to do an investigation of one of these installers. Hopefully they can be manually unpacked if a user just wants to do that.
As far as I can tell this is the standard sh script appended to the beginning of a tar archive that's commonly used for cross-distro installations. All the information needed to extract is in that little script at the beginning.
Posted August 11, 2015
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TheJoe: Hide tarball downloads under "Advanced Options" in account section or something.
I'll third this. It wouldn't confuse anyone that way (other than figuring out where to find them in the first place).
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