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[kozy]

You should stick to 0.15.x, i sadly don't see wine fixing it anytime soon, so hopefully by the time 0.15.x is deprecated, we should all be able to use the native python client ..

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...but we are able to

To be honest, this has proven difficult if not impossible throughout the past year so I gave up (I even tried recently - july/august - without much success).
But I did manage to get it running in the past so I was just waiting for the right time to try again.

That's an issue with wine but introduced by FAF 0.16.0.
You should stick to 0.15.x, i sadly don't see wine fixing it anytime soon, so hopefully by the time 0.15.x is deprecated, we should all be able to use the native python client ..

We've lately done some work to make the client more easily runnable natively under Linux, you can find updated instructions here.

I will try this new version, hopefully this is as simple as you both described it, fingers crossed !

[tatsu]

up to date instructions :
(some now has to be done by hand) :
Got to https://github.com/FAForever/client/releases

and click on "Source Code" (either zip or tar.gz)

then when you open the zip go down a folder (go into client-develop in the zip)

and unzip all from there into a newly created "fafclient/client" folder in your home.

once that's done open a terminal and do this :

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sudo apt-get install python3-semantic-version python3-dev python3-idna python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine
cd fafclient/
sudo wget https://github.com/FAForever/uid/releases/download/v4.0.5/faf-uid -O /usr/bin/faf-uid
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/faf-uid
touch client/res/RELEASE-VERSION
echo "0.16.1" >> client/res/RELEASE-VERSION


then you can create the desktop launcher :

.desktop file content (adapt "username" to yourself):

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#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.14.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/home/username/.local/share/applications/faf.sh
Name=FAF
Comment=Games
Icon=/home/username/.local/share/icons/faf.png


and content of "faf.sh" (script that runs faf called by the desktop file).

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#!/bin/sh
cd /faf-client
/usr/bin/python3 ./client/src


(place both files in .local/share/applications/)

[Wesmania]

Tatsu, some of this stuff has changed, in particular FAF shouldn't depend on any packages that you wouldn't find in any standard repos, and the virtualenv route is just as troublesome as ever. I suggest we promote the method that uses zipped archives from release site and system packages rather than git sources and virtualenv, it will definitely be more successful for everyone. It's even there on the wiki:
http://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Setting_Up_FAF_Linux#Debian.2FUbuntu

[tatsu]

isn't that what I did there? I've stopped using virtualenv for the past five pages.

[Wesmania]

I guess I didn't skim your post hard enough, sorry. Still, it's a bad idea to download a zip of the develop branch, since not all stuff that ends there is guaranteed to be bug-free. Better to download a zip from an official versioned release. You also have some no longer needed deps in apt-get, I think you don't need pycparser, dateutil, requests, cffi, virtualenv, liblua, xdelta and git anymore.

[tatsu]

I guess I didn't skim your post hard enough, sorry. Still, it's a bad idea to download a zip of the develop branch, since not all stuff that ends there is guaranteed to be bug-free. Better to download a zip from an official versioned release. You also have some no longer needed deps in apt-get, I think you don't need pycparser, dateutil, requests, cffi, virtualenv, liblua, xdelta and git anymore.

yup! edited my post above!

[Wesmania]

Add pyqt5 and qtwebengine to the list too

[tatsu]

Add pyqt5 and qtwebengine to the list too

ok edited.

they just BARELY got release on ubuntu 17.04

there's also qtwebengine5-dev libqt5webengine-data libqt5webenginewidgets5 libqt5webenginecore5


do I add them for safety?

[Wesmania]

You added qt rather than pyqt packages and yeah, the pyqt packages should be enough.

[tatsu]

You added qt rather than pyqt packages and yeah, the pyqt packages should be enough.

third time's the charm? : D pyqt5 also just released.