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Posted August 18, 2015
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shmerl: Some previous tests results were posted here (note, that xz I used then wasn't parallelized):
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/use_better_compression_for_linux_tarballs_for_example_tarxz
I’ve done some similar tests on GOG forums (on the Wasteland 2 Linux archive), but it seems I can’t find them…
Well, I think you already read them anyway ;)
Posted August 18, 2015
I posted a suggestion about a "mega-thread" which purpose would be to offer our help to people that want to try Linux but don’t feel confident enough to go without prior advice.
You can read more about this idea there:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/help_wean_me_off_windows_with_wine/post39

If you feel motivated by the creation of such a thread, please show your motivation in the discussion I linked ;)
Should enough people seem interested, I’ll open the new thread tomorrow and send a link to it via GOG chat to people who showed interest. I’ll post a link in the "Community Stickies Compendium" too to add to its visibility.
Posted August 18, 2015
I bet a lot of Linux GOGlodytes miss the availability of 'code' tags on the forum, as using 'quote' as a fallback does not provide the same level of readability, especially for multi-lines code.
So I opened a wishlist entry asking for their inclusion:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_a_code_tag_to_the_forum

Please vote for it and share it around. If it gets enough votes to show a real interest, I’ll send a ticket about it to GOG support using the amount of votes to back up the demand.
Posted August 28, 2015
Anyone with amd64 jessie based distro get any of the Eschalon games running? They are convinced it won't work as it's a 32-bit game.
Posted August 28, 2015
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Gydion: Anyone with amd64 jessie based distro get any of the Eschalon games running? They are convinced it won't work as it's a 32-bit game.
32-bits games on general do run very well on 64-bits Debian Jessie (just need to install 32-bits libraries, see http://www.gog.com/support/baldurs_gate_enhanced_edition/some_games_come_with_a_32bit_binary_only_what_does_this_mean for how to do it). Didn't try those games in particular, but there is no reason they wouldn't work.
Posted August 28, 2015
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Gydion: Anyone with amd64 jessie based distro get any of the Eschalon games running? They are convinced it won't work as it's a 32-bit game.
I didn't try the game, but in general if you have multiarch enabled and needed libs installed, they should indeed work. Don't miss the libc6-i386 package. It's not the same as libc6:i386 one! Without it I had major issues with running 32 bit games in Wine.

Wine pulls in a lot of basic needed 32-bit dependencies (but it doesn't pull in libc6-i386 on Debian) , so it's a good baseline for such things. After you installed that, use ldd to determine what else can be missing.
Post edited August 28, 2015 by shmerl
Posted August 29, 2015
Thanks guys. I don't have these games myself. Looks like immi101 has an idea. If the OP ever comes back with any arch related error messages I'll point them to your posts.
Post edited August 29, 2015 by Gydion
Posted September 04, 2015
FYI: Latest update to Race The Sun is using newer version of Unity, and the infamous big XFS partition bug is fixed now.
Post edited September 04, 2015 by shmerl
Posted September 04, 2015
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shmerl: FYI: Latest update to Race The Sun is using newer version of Unity, and the infamous big XFS partition bug is fixed now.
Has Vsync been fixed?
Posted September 04, 2015
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king_mosiah: Has Vsync been fixed?
I didn't test that specifically, but according to the changelog (you can view it through the game card):

Added "No Vsync" option
Hope that helps.
Post edited September 04, 2015 by shmerl
Posted September 08, 2015
Ok. So here are my woes. Apparently , for some bizarre reason, the people at Canonical decided to remove the comfortable package ia32-libs (necessary to run 32 bits programs in linux 64 bits), and instead expect everything to run through multiarch... And everything that doesnt run on that to be repurposed. If not, you have to install the libraries by hand.


Is there any way to get around thimess ?!?!?!?! Seriously, it's astonishing the amount of programs that simply don't run now on linux, and you have to install the i386 libs one by one AS THEY GIVE ONE ERROR MESSAGE AFTER ANOTHER. For me it's the singlest, most annoying thing in linux right now, and I don't understand why these guys have done such a thing, making ubuntu far less user-friendly and more undesirable.

Is there any way to get around this that I have missed somehow? Really, it's ridiculous to have to do this with every single game I happen to install in my linux rig.
Posted September 08, 2015
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GrossorMD: Ok. So here are my woes. Apparently , for some bizarre reason, the people at Canonical decided to remove the comfortable package ia32-libs (necessary to run 32 bits programs in linux 64 bits), and instead expect everything to run through multiarch... And everything that doesnt run on that to be repurposed. If not, you have to install the libraries by hand.

Is there any way to get around thimess ?!?!?!?! Seriously, it's astonishing the amount of programs that simply don't run now on linux, and you have to install the i386 libs one by one AS THEY GIVE ONE ERROR MESSAGE AFTER ANOTHER. For me it's the singlest, most annoying thing in linux right now, and I don't understand why these guys have done such a thing, making ubuntu far less user-friendly and more undesirable.

Is there any way to get around this that I have missed somehow? Really, it's ridiculous to have to do this with every single game I happen to install in my linux rig.
Ubuntu didn't decide anything. They received that change from Debian, upon which they're based.

Debian made the change because the old way was basically "You get all or none of this bundle of common libraries and, if you need something else in 32-bit, you're shit outta luck".

Stuff that's "Properly packaged" by Debian standards (.deb) Just Works™ via the dependency system and, from Debian's perspective, your installers are broken because they abdicate their responsibility to either offer 64-bit builds, bundle all of their dependencies, or automate installation of their dependencies.

To quote this GOG support page:

If you want to install most required libraries ahead of time, you can do so by performing the ollowing commands in the terminal (enter your user password to unlock root priviledges):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install libc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
Posted September 08, 2015
Indeed. ia32-libs was a horrible mess of bundled stuff. Current multiach approach is much cleaner and more flexible. And it says "know your dependencies". If you don't know them - don't clutter your system.

And this change happened in Debian a long time ago. Ubuntu just probably catches up now.
Post edited September 08, 2015 by shmerl
Posted September 08, 2015
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GrossorMD: Is there any way to get around this that I have missed somehow?
An excellent answer by ssokolow to which I would just add that, for the same reason, Mint devs have added their own ia32-libs which is actually a meta-package pulling all common 32-bit libraries:

bluez-alsa:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 gvfs:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 libacl1:i386 libaio1:i386 libao4:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libasyncns0:i386 libattr1:i386 libaudio2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcap2:i386 libcapi20-3:i386 libcups2:i386 libcupsimage2:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libesd0:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgail-common:i386 libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libgettextpo0:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libgphoto2-6:i386 libgphoto2-port10:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libmpg123-0:i386 libncursesw5:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libodbc1:i386 libopenal1:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 libpulsedsp:i386 libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-network:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-script:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-sql:i386 libqt4-svg:i386 libqt4-test:i386 libqt4-xml:i386 libqt4-xmlpatterns:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libqtgui4:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 librsvg2-common:i386 libsane:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxaw7:i386 libxml2:i386 libxp6:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libxss1:i386 libxtst6:i386 odbcinst1debian2:i386 xaw3dg:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
If you want to install them without using Mint, after adding i386 architecture as advised before, prefix the previous list of packages with:
sudo apt-get install
Post edited September 08, 2015 by v3
Posted September 08, 2015
Thanks to both of you. Both your replies have been very helpful to me :)
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