Tried the script, got his error:

/home/bignickel/.cache/winetricks/directx9: Permission denied/home/bignickel/.cache/winetricks/directx9/directx_Jun2010_redist.exe: No such file or directory

Cannot write to ‘/home/bignickel/.cache/winetricks/directx9/directx_Jun2010_redist.exe’ (Success).
An error occurred downloading the DirectX9 Jun2010 installer
rm: cannot remove '/home/bignickel/.cache/winetricks/directx9/directx_Jun2010_redist.exe': No such file or directory

FIgured it out: i just had to give myself ownership of winetricks, and give myself permissions to write there. Game installed, and seems to be running as well as it can on this rig.

I’m glad this one worked for you ;)

Now I just need to figure out what Adamhm do with this wrapper that I miss with the ./play.it script to understand what I need to tweak. (excluding of course the use of a well tested version of WINE)

For some reason every time I try to do the "bash" command it ends up with an error message saying "ERROR: attempt to invoke icotool failed; please make sure that the icoutils package (or your distro's equivalent) is installed".

Could you perhaps help me with this? I run Debian 9.3 btw

You need to install the icoutils package - do this as you would for installing any other package from your system's repositories. It might be worth checking to make sure you have the other required dependencies installed too & installing those if needed (wine's dependencies, zenity etc.)

Using this wrapper, I was able to successfully install this in Linux Mint 19.2 without any problems. Being a Linux n00b, I can't thank you enough!

For anyone struggling with this, for the least frustrating experience first create the directory that you want to install the game to, then copy all wrapper and game installation files to that directory. Then run witcher_wine.sh from the terminal so you can monitor the installation process.

Hi there, I have been trying to install The Witcher unsuccessfully for the past couple of hours. The installation keeps failing with an innoextract error which says:
"Stream error while extracting files! -> error reason: lzma decompression error: iostream error"

I have tried searching online for similar errors but I haven't really found anything useful (other than that it might be an issue with boost?) I've downloaded the game files directly from the GOG website and also with lgogdownloader but the installation fails with the same error either way (although it has failed at different points). I've attached a picture of the failure that I have gotten the last couple time I have tried (using the files downloaded through lgogdownloader).

I am running Ubuntu 19.10 and I tried installing your dependency meta-package. I am not really sure what else I can try and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Try uninstalling the system's version of innoextract - this will force the script to download & use the generic version instead. If that doesn't work I'll set up an Ubuntu 19.10 VM and take a look at it.

Thanks a ton for the reply, that worked! I am actually a bit embarrassed I did not think of that, since I knew the error was with innoextract. The script did say that the innoextract version found on the system was out of date so it would download a more recent one. Maybe there is some issue with my PATH variable and that is why the script was choosing the system one instead of the downloaded one?

Thanks again!