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Gog On Linux

This project is a collection of two scripts (and some python libraries)

and its goal is to provide an easy to use platform to play gog (http://www.gog.com) games on a GNU/Linux system.

Each supported game will be installed using a series of patches provided by http://www.gogonlinux.com team and will be tested and stable to run on most Linux distributions.

gog-tux is the GUI client that will be installed, it can be used to log onto a gog.com account and download/install/launch/uninstall the desired gog games.

gog-installer is a cli implementation that can be used to install, setup and uninstall gog.com games.

INSTALLATION:

To install the desired version of the gogonlinux project, untar the 

source package (.tar.gz) and execute "python setup.py install" as root. This will setup the required python libraries and install gog-tux and gog-installer on your machine.

REQUIRED LIBRARIES:

To run this software the following python libraries are required:

• glade2
• oauth2 (notice the 2, it's important)
• requests
• certifi

The best way to install them is using the pip program, it handles dependencies of python libraries and installs them for you directly. Using a specific distro's package manager sometimes can result in broken libraries that may make the software run differently than intended.

REQUIRED EXTERNAL SOFTWARE:

Without the following programs installed on your system you won't be able to install and run the games, so please install them before you run the gog client.

• wine (http://www.winehq.org/) is required to run windows (.exe) gog.com games
• winetricks is a wine script required to setup some wine games
• scummvm (http://www.scummvm.org/) is required for some old adventure games
• dosbox (http://www.dosbox.com/) is required for most old dos videogames
• innoextract (http://constexpr.org/innoextract/) is required to extract and setup the .exe installers downloaded from gog.com
• zenity is required for some installation and launcher scripts for games

For an ease of use, please download the aforementioned programs from your distribution's package manager (i.e. apt-get for ubuntu).

SUBMITTING BUGS:

If you have any bug to submit or question to ask, feel free to send an e-mail to the author of this project: [email protected]