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I don't think there's a guide for your specific use case, but it's essentially no different from running any other windows installer on Linux. You will have to set up Wine (a guide is on their website) and once that's done, it's basically just double-clicking the setup.exe.
no brother thats not how it works , because fitgirl repacks are extremely compressed since they are sent off through torrent , its not like you can just double click the setup.exe i would suggest you to see some reddit posts regarding this topic if my comment didn't explain it properly :) https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCrackSupport/comments/yqfirv/how_to_install_fitgirl_or_dodi_windows_repacks_in/
Yes, that is absolutely how it works, the compression or the files being distributed via torrents doesn't make any difference. I have installed plenty of (Fitgirl) repacks just by setting up wine and double-clicking the .exe file. I've never had any issues whatsoever.
I'm not sure what problem you are having when you say 'nothing works'. I've installed several FG repacks over the years including one only a couple of weeks ago. Open and terminal and cd to the directory that contains your FG download, then:
I separate the winetricks lines as sometimes winetricks gets overwhelmed if you call two many functions. I can assure you that this does work, though the repacks sometimes take ages to install. Personally I use rutracker as my source as the games come pre-made with wine.
My guess is that this is the too complicated part.
So If I use fitgirl -repacks rutracker then will i get wine pre made?
Rutracker has a forum dedicated to Windows games pre-packed with a wine runner. EDIT: Nothing to do with Fitgirl.
Are those safe? i just trust fitgirl repacks /Dodi repacks and nothing much
Yes, rutracker is safe. In particular Kron4ek is a trusted repacker. You can also download games from certain IRC channels which is much quicker but requires some setting up.
Thanks This also works i am having a directx error to make sound unable but other than that wholesome
Lmfao
Clueless person dishing out a condescending 'no brother thats not how it works', comedy gold 😃
"It doesn't work because repacks are extremely compressed because they're sent through torrent"
Dude should stick to Windows
He's got another post now telling people that no one helped because they didn't understand he was on Linux 🙄
If the game isn't too big, you can add the installer exe to Steam via the "add a non-Steam game" menu, set it up to run with Proton, and then click the Play button which will launch the installer. When it's done installing, remove the installer from your games, and add the game's exe to Steam directly.
If the game is too big (60gb or more) use Lutris's "install a game" feature, and run the installer from there.
Classic Reddit user!