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Glengrant
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2016.06.13 00:17:05 -
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First: Many thanks to CCP Snorlax for this Launcher. Great work.
I had EVE running well on wine for many years (roughly a decade IIRC). Took a bit of fiddling sometimes, occasionally didn't work a for a couple of days after a new EVE upgrade release (or a few hours after a wine version introduced a regression) - but 99% of the time everything was fine.
But my machine was due for a storage upgrade and so I used this occasion of a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install to try this new unofficial, unsupported ;-) evelauncher.
Shortly after 16.04 was started for the first time GÇô without any wine install (no playonlinux or anything) - but Steam for Linux was already installed - I installed this launcher.
Initial setup and download (wine and assets) went smooth enough - but then nothing happened when I pushed the play button.
After going through the terminal output and log files I had to install the following 4 packages to get EVE going: libgnutls30:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 mpg123:i386
As others in this thread have reported out-of-the-box success - I'm assuming that above packages are installed by playonlinux or otherwise in typical wine setups.
The launcher complained about a missing steam appid file (I bought EVE back in 03 - long before there was a Steam version) - so I made it shut up by creating a steam_appid.txt file with just 8500 in it (EVE appid according to steam database). It probably made no difference for the actual working of the launcher and game.
Finally I extracted an icon from the exe and created a desktop file for it - so now it looks nice in the Unity launcher.
As others have reported before, the IGB gives me trouble (crashing actually). Worked fine in my old install so I'm confident that can be fixed. I did try the linking of libgnutls.so.26 -> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30. But that didn't do the trick for me. Will debug that later - can live without the IGB for a while.
So on the whole I'm very happy with the evelauncher. And it's only a few little tweaks away from being out-of-the-box perfect. A deb would have been nice - but I don't want to be greedy - it's already ok as it is. And I'm sure resources for stuff that's officially unsupported are limited. :-)
Again thanks for providing this evelauncher - it's much appreciated. |
Glengrant
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2016.06.13 21:54:29 -
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Sial Harkonnen wrote:hi there, trying to start the linux launcher. open it with "sh...." in tux commander or terminal (with sudo) the launcher starts, i see the launcher window for a secound, and then it closes. no error message... i am using zorin 8 linux. and wine v1.9.12 (highest aviable)
any advice? in noob language please :)
thx
If you unpacked the evelauncher somewhere within your home folder hierarchy you shouln't run it with sudo.
In terminal and assuming you switched into your evelauncher folder - simply do this:
sudo is for when you want to run stuff with root (= Administrator) priviliges. You do that for installing packages or changing system configuration.
shell scripts that are installed by you into your own home folder has your own access permissions and therefore can be run by you (without root priviliges).
I'm not familiar with zorin - otherwise I would tell you how to create a desktop file to have a nice launcher icon on your desktop. |
Glengrant
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2016.06.14 09:28:35 -
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Glengrant wrote:First: Many thanks to CCP Snorlax for this Launcher. Great work.
I had EVE running well on wine for many years (roughly a decade IIRC). Took a bit of fiddling sometimes, occasionally didn't work a for a couple of days after a new EVE upgrade release (or a few hours after a wine version introduced a regression) - but 99% of the time everything was fine.
But my machine was due for a storage upgrade and so I used this occasion of a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install to try this new unofficial, unsupported ;-) evelauncher.
Shortly after 16.04 was started for the first time GÇô without any wine install (no playonlinux or anything) - but Steam for Linux was already installed - I installed this launcher.
Initial setup and download (wine and assets) went smooth enough - but then nothing happened when I pushed the play button.
After going through the terminal output and log files I had to install the following 4 packages to get EVE going: libgnutls30:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 mpg123:i386
As others in this thread have reported out-of-the-box success - I'm assuming that above packages are installed by playonlinux or otherwise in typical wine setups.
The launcher complained about a missing steam appid file (I bought EVE back in 03 - long before there was a Steam version) - so I made it shut up by creating a steam_appid.txt file with just 8500 in it (EVE appid according to steam database). It probably made no difference for the actual working of the launcher and game.
Finally I extracted an icon from the exe and created a desktop file for it - so now it looks nice in the Unity launcher.
As others have reported before, the IGB gives me trouble (crashing actually). Worked fine in my old install so I'm confident that can be fixed. I did try the linking of libgnutls.so.26 -> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30. But that didn't do the trick for me. Will debug that later - can live without the IGB for a while.
So on the whole I'm very happy with the evelauncher. And it's only a few little tweaks away from being out-of-the-box perfect. A deb would have been nice - but I don't want to be greedy - it's already ok as it is. And I'm sure resources for stuff that's officially unsupported are limited. :-)
Again thanks for providing this evelauncher - it's much appreciated.
In the meantime I have installed playonlinux (from Ubuntu "multiverse " repo) and now the IGB works too,
So my guess is (and as others above have reported) - installing playonlinux first, the evelauncher probably would have run without issues the first time.
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Glengrant
TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2016.06.17 12:00:07 -
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Toka Nambu wrote:Hi,
Maybe a stupid question but I'm completely new to Linux or Ubuntu. Do I need to install wine from an other source, and downloading the eve launcher from the eveonline site?
You do not neet to install wine - the evelauncher downloads wine and EVE automatically.
But you should first install playonlinux. It's a nice wine frontend tool and UI. You don't actually need the playonlinux UI for EVE though. It just also installs some libraries that are needed.
playonlinux is in Ubuntu "multiverse" repository.
Press Windows key (or click Ubuntu symbol - topmost on unity launcher) - type "software" - you'll see "Software & Updates". Start that, on the first tab make sure that "Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse)" is selected.
After that you can install playonlinux with sudo apt install playonlinux in terminal or via the "Ubuntu Software" application.
After that the evenlauncher should run, it install all that you need for eve and you can play after the downloads are finished.
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