immi101: anybody have an idea how to prevent the GOG installer from installing .NET/VC runtime and similar useless stuff ?
The Darkest Hour installer always hangs while trying to install .NET3.5 :/
While killing the .NET installer allows the GOG installer to finish, I wish there was an easier way to tell to installer not to bother with that stuff.
rampancy: IIRC, if you run the installer with the /debug flag, it only installs just the game files, without running the installer for dependencies like .NET. (That was how I got AvP to install when it first came out, as the associated installer it ran for Galaxy would lock up WINE.)
Also, if you do things like install .NET before running the installer, the installer should be smart enough to not try to install it again.
/debug flag doesn't change anything, maybe that's only a thing in older/newer or even just this particular installer version ?
using winetricks to install dotnet35 beforehand does work (takes ages though)
what worked to disable the .NET installer is running the installer with this:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dotNetFx35setup.exe=d" wine setup_darkest_hour_2.0.0.2.exe
.NET is only use for the game launcher, the game works fine without it and the settings can be easily edited with an text editor.
Alternatively, the game launcher will also work after installing wine-mono.