Shoes Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 As the title says, the game won't launch through Steam in Ubuntu 14.04. The error message is "Failed to start game (missing executable)" I know linux support was added recently, so I wonder if the X:CE simply hasn't caught up yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Caine Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Linux support has been added for the official version of the game (1.59). I don't think it has been added for the wholly unofficial Community Edition. Unless someone wants to contradict me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llunak Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 You can use the Windows version of X:CE, either from Windows Steam or here from the forum. Simply run it using Wine on Linux, it works without problems for me on openSUSE13.1 x86_64 with Wine-1.7.22 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 The games steam version for linux uses wine already. I don't know how steam games are made & set up, so this is all hypothetical. From what I can gleam of the game on linux, there are two scripts added: Xenonauts/detect_wine Installs wine using distribution specific packagemanagers. Xenonauts/usr/bin/xenonauts Checks if wine exists and if it does, calls 'which wine xenonauts/Xenonauts.exe'. I'm guessing the later is what runs the game on linux? Maybe Goldhawk could tell us how they setup the linux version so CE could do the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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