It seems that you're using an outdated browser. Some things may not work as they should (or don't work at all).
We suggest you upgrade newer and better browser like: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera

×
Community
General discussionWhy won't GOG offline installers run on Ubuntu?(105 posts)(105 posts)
(105 posts)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
This is my favourite topic
Posted April 15, 2022
avatar
Arundir: Then began a 45 minute journey with apt trying to install the missing libraries with no success.
avatar
Dark_art_: Were you not able to install the dependencies via link on maxleod post?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/why_wont_gog_offline_installers_run_on_ubuntu/post19

The dedicated Baldur's Gate forum has a truckload of threads with the same problem and solutions, some of them by our fellow vv221 :)
You mean I should link in the thread mentioned by you my solution? I can do that I guess, but I do not know how to link to a specific post.

PS I did read your post wrong, nevermind
Post edited April 15, 2022 by Arundir
Posted April 15, 2022
avatar
Arundir: You mean I should link in the thread mentioned by you my solution? I can do that I guess, but I do not know how to link to a specific post.
My fault for not being clear enough...

The link on post n19 points to ./playit website with the solution to the problem with detailed instructions and the missing libraries available as tar.gz download.

Will leave the link here as well

Thank you for installing the game to solve the issue :)
Posted April 15, 2022
avatar
TheNamelessOne_PL: Why are you saying I am an attention whote? Why? You have been bullying me all the time for no reason... I have problem and I thought I would ask people... Why are you even evil? I just asked people for a solution and you are being maleficient. Have you ever considered kindness?
avatar
lupineshadow: Sure, you told us you felt hurt before. But you still do the same thing over and over again - deliberately trying to use up other people's time with topics which you don't really care about (if you did you would read the advice given to you in this topic, and use google, and solve your problems)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/can_gogdigital_games_be_even_called_a_collection_since_they_are_not_physical_media/post5

I feel hurt you feel that way. This is a different topic.
avatar
lupineshadow:
But this time, I am asking for help... I am trying the Lutris solution other people proposed, but my newer Wi-fi adapter does not work on Linux, so Internet is slow... I will check back here later
Posted April 15, 2022
avatar
DubConqueror: There's a lot of disdain from Linux users on the GOG forum for people who keep on using Windows, but if I read this topic about all the hoops you need to go through and searching for how to do a simple thing like install a game, needing all kind of commands typed and tools used, I wonder if I will indeed go to Linux once Windows 10 support ends or bite the bullet to have to login with an MS account and switch to Windows 11 in 2024. If I want to install a game, I want to open a file and run the installer as a default.
I really don't. It annoys me that usability has not been more of a concern with Linux desktops overall. Canonical seems to greatly care about this (but are constrained by how much resources they can pour in this problem), but a lot of the ecosystem don't care enough about it. Some part of it, I feel is putting yourself in the shoes of someone who isn't technical and doesn't know as much as you do.

avatar
DubConqueror: That, and when switching to Linux you have to make a choice between an overwhelming lot of distros and whatever terms are used, needing to know the difference between 'Arch', 'Debian' and what-not, when all I want to is to have an OS that's easy to use and runs the programs I want to run, without having to become some kind of amateur programmer or IT-specialist that knows all the insides of different OS-es.
As a beginner, you can cut down on all that noise a lot.

Veterans will tell you to use things like Arch, Debian and various more involved distributions (for Fedora, it looks good on paper until you realise you're consistently troubleshooting all the latest updates for Red Hat... you want to a tester for all the latest unproven changes if you are a beginner? No, probably not). If you are a beginner and are not an innovator or early adopter, this is an horrible mistake I fear.

You don't need to deal with more details, the most user-friendly Linux distros out there have more details than you care about already.

Stick with Ubuntu (and go for one of the LTS releases like which are released in April of even years and wait about a year after after an LTS release is out before you use it, you can thank me later) or one of its derivatives (maybe Mint or Pop!_OS) until you get the gist of things and feel comfortable. If you feel emboldened by that experience, then you can try something like Arch, Debian & al.
Post edited April 15, 2022 by Magnitus
Posted April 15, 2022
Okay, so I tried installing BG2 via Lutris and it showed me that:

"The executable at path /home/myname/Games/gog/baldurs-gate-ii-enhanced-edition/xxx_AUTO_ELF_xXx can't be found, please checm the destination folder. Some parts of the installation process may not have completed successfully"

What does that mean?
Posted April 15, 2022
low rated
No idea
Posted April 15, 2022
I don't get it, why does Linux need to do everything via the terminal? What's the point of that?


lupine, I still can't see how nothing working out of the box has anything to do with me...
Post edited April 15, 2022 by TheNamelessOne_PL
Posted April 15, 2022
avatar
TheNamelessOne_PL: I don't get it, why does Linux need to do everything via the terminal? What's the point of that?

lupine, I still can't see how nothing working out of the box has anything to do with me...
The.sh file to install the game can be executed in the window manager, but you have to make a change in the file properties before you can do that. As I said in my earlier post, Linux is set on the perspective that you are a responsible user of a computer and to an extent are aware and knowledgeable of what you are doing, have to do.

The terminal console is still heavily used and always a fallback when problems arise as the desktop environment is only a window manager with graphical applications that often sit on top of other programs(often console programs), not a full desktop environment with graphical software integrated into the operating system.

Having said that, Linux has made amazing progress looking at the installation and also the availability of software with graphical interfaces for numerous applications and to make changes to the system.

The game should run out of the box. It seems that Ubuntu dropped the libssl.so.1.0.0 in their 20.04 LTS distribution and if you read the "Works on" entry on the game page for Baldur's Gate, it says "Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.9+) "
Post edited April 16, 2022 by Arundir
Posted April 15, 2022
avatar
TheNamelessOne_PL: I don't get it, why does Linux need to do everything via the terminal? What's the point of that?

lupine, I still can't see how nothing working out of the box has anything to do with me...
Because, as much as I hate to say it, Linux is a mess. I'm a Linux-user exclusively, have been for a few years, but it's still painful to use. Firefox works fine, so does LibreOffice, but apart from that you're on your own (speaking as a end-user).

That being said...

I ran into the same proplems as you, and while eventually I found a solution (in my case it was ./play.it), I think the problem here, for once, is not Linux. The problem is GOG. We boht run Ubuntu and we both bought the games We both meet the requirements, according to the GOG games' pages.

GOG's support is useless.

When I buy a game I expect it to run flawlessly and smoothly, not to go through all that trouble.

Linux is not user friendly, but GOG is at fault here

Enough ranting.

Again, the ./play.it script I posted before should work:

https://www.dotslashplay.it/en/games/baldurs-gate-1-enhanced-edition
Post edited April 15, 2022 by maxleod
Posted April 15, 2022
...
Post edited May 24, 2022 by clarry
Posted April 16, 2022
avatar
maxleod: I ran into the same proplems as you, and while eventually I found a solution (in my case it was ./play.it), I think the problem here, for once, is not Linux. The problem is GOG. We boht run Ubuntu and we both bought the games We both meet the requirements, according to the GOG games' pages.

GOG's support is useless.

When I buy a game I expect it to run flawlessly and smoothly, not to go through all that trouble.

Linux is not user friendly, but GOG is at fault here
Yes, the problem with third-party software and hardware is very often:
- Said party doesn't want to support Linux properly
- Given that the internal of what said party providers are proprietary, nobody in the Linux world can patch it without reverse-engineering the whole shabang.

GOG Linux installers work if you are already a Linux veteran (ie, you can set the executable bit, you can research missing libraries and install them). Otherwise, they are horrible.

avatar
maxleod: https://www.dotslashplay.it/en/games/baldurs-gate-1-enhanced-edition
Nice link. Thanks.
Posted April 16, 2022
avatar
TheNamelessOne_PL: I don't get it, why does Linux need to do everything via the terminal? What's the point of that?
avatar
clarry: My thinking is exactly the opposite. Why waste time making a GUI for every little thing when there's already a simple, reliable, proven, standard, universal, and scriptable means to command the system and get basic input & output with support for redirection, logging, etcetra? It is incredibly powerful in a way that GUIs are not.

And honestly that's why I don't really care for a critical mass of Windows users on Linux as long as they don't understand it. They just want to turn it into a bad cheap clone of Microsoft shit. What's the point, just keep using Windows..

EDIT: I'll add that while a lot of things can no doubt be done via a GUI, the problem is that GUIs change and there are lots of them, so it's very annoying to give instructions for doing things via *some* GUI.. instructions that may very well be obsolete next year. So you're more likely to find relevant and up-to-date instructions if you just look up whatever file you need to edit or command you need to run.

And this kind of thing is why I said it's going to be a long while for Linux to be plug and play for Windows users. There's a massive culture clash of people wanting to change the system in dramatic ways that have serious technical implications and which won't please a lot of its current users. I don't want to see the day when ld.so calls MessageBoxA to alert you to a missing library..

Of course, you can build anything you want on top of Linux, but somehow the old school way tends to prevail. Maybe for a good reason.
So where do you say I begin? What would be, like, the starting point for me to begin comprehending how Linux works?
Posted April 16, 2022
Ok, I got it working.

Download and install the following .deb package and you should be good: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl1.0/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.8_amd64.deb

It will solve this error:
./BaldursGate: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is with Ubuntu 20.04

This is just to install a library that the game requires that apparently Ubuntu no longer packages.

avatar
TheNamelessOne_PL: So where do you say I begin? What would be, like, the starting point for me to begin comprehending how Linux works?
I read a book on Linux System administration about 10 years ago, but it might not be the best way to get started if you don't want to make a career out of it.

My advice is: Find a decently rated beginner level Linux course on Udemy and then wait for one of their 80%+ discounts and make your move.

Edit:

Gotta run. I'll type all the instructions you need to type on the command line to make it work later if you are still struggling after having read the above.
Post edited April 16, 2022 by Magnitus
Posted April 16, 2022
This is why we can't have nice things.

Not surprised people give up.
Posted April 16, 2022
...
Post edited May 24, 2022 by clarry
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
This is my favourite topic
Community
General discussionWhy won't GOG offline installers run on Ubuntu?(105 posts)(105 posts)
(105 posts)