Hello,

I just purchased this today on the 75% off sale. Part of the reason I wanted to try it out was because I have a laptop running Linux Mint, and it can actually handle the minimum specs of this game.

I have attempted to install and play this game several times now to no avail. Here is the problem:

I downloaded the .sh installer

I run installation in the terminal using
"chmod +x gog_xenonauts_2.1.0.4.sh"
"sudo ./gog_xenonauts_2.1.0.4.sh"

This loads the installer, so far so good.

I select a folder and install, and wait for it complete.

Then I end up with a link and a couple of folders that I don't have permissions to access. Trying to access either will result in a "permissions denied" error. Attmepting to force my way in using "gksudo" to get into the folders still won't help because it seems that nothing is there.

Is this related to /tmp exec problems or......?

I'm currently at a loss with how to proceed to get it to work, so if anyone has answers I'm all ears.

You're expected to run the installer as yourself, and run the game with full access permissions to the game (because you then own it). I actually don't do that myself, but if you don't know what you're doing, it's best to just do it the way it was intended.

In other words, never run the installer as root (sudo). You also don't need to chmod +x the script; just run it using sh, but it doesn't hurt to do it the way you did.

Alternatively, do a "sudo chmod -R og+rX Xenonauts" or whatever the install dir is, and run it that way. Start with start.sh or Xenonauts.bin.x86, whichever (again, as yourself, never as root!).

Thanks, This did the trick.

Incidentally, I also had trouble starting the game after this point, but this solution worked for me:


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