Hi there,

i just installed Manjaro Linux on my Laptop and installed some linux games with GOG offline installers.
When i use ./.... on my Desktop a nic GUI opens and lets me install the game. On the fresh installed laptop there is only text in the console (license text is shown with confirmation, path settings must be manually entered in console). I can install the games that way but its unnecessary complicated.

As the laptop ist fresh installed i think im just missing a package for the Mojo Installer to show the GUI and not using console only. Does anyone can help me there?

thanks in advance and greetings

My experience with Manjaro is limited but why not just right click the file and go to properties and give it permission to execute and then click it.

I've used it at LUGs for game events back in 2019 and that just worked on fresh offline install.

if i execute it with right click/context menu only a console opens and the above mentioned content is shown. Like i said i think there is a package missing for mojo to show the gui

That does not sound right. Which Manjaro did you install exactly? Version + DE.

Manjaro 21.0.7 KDE minimal german edition with all package updates installed

That sounds strange. I'm on Arch with KDE and installers GUI always worked out of the box. I'd guess it maybe uses zenity/kdialog to display, check if you have these installed.

Just FYI, if you ever find yourself in a "terminal only" situation or just want to install these things remotely (without executing anything), you can also:

1) unzip -d temp <installer_name.sh>
2) cd temp/data
3) mv noarch <game_name>
4) mv <game_name> <path_to_your_usual_game_folder>
5) cd ../..
6) rm -rf temp

I always do it like this to be honest.

Well, while you're down there in the ancient past, give a shoutout to WindowMaker.

So it's not even bundled. Might be a problem as GTK2 will be less and less common on new systems. I have it only because steam requires.

Ideally GOG games should be distributed like flatpaks, it would resolve all dependencies issues.

Maybe not Flatpaks. At least to me, those have issues of their own; I'd prefer Appimages. Or a proper repo signed and maintained by GOG.

I do find it concerning that GTK2 remains defacto a demand for the Linux installers given doubtless a sunset soon.

Yes, I meant like flatpaks as general idea of everything required bundled and possibly sandboxed. But why not even actual flatpak as it's already in use and quite popular. If they'd set up repo it would even allow updates.
Appimage is nice but they'd probably have to come up with some pseudo installer which would copy appimage file to "safe" location (so people don't remove it accidentally) and set up shortcuts.

Which I think would be a fair compromise, actually.