SkyDemon on Linux

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SkyDemon on Linux

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baffled	baffled posted 11/4/2019 10:24:20 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 17	Hi - Having the same problem with V3.12.12. I emailed the lovely support team at SkyDemon and they sent me a zipped copy of the version 3.12.11 setup for windows which works just fine under wine. Not a permanent solution by any means, but it's better than nothing until a work-around is produced for the latest version. Not quite sure why there isn't a repository of older versions, but I was genuinely surprised they didn't just say 'we don't support linux' and leave it at that. Thanks to Hannah Hart. Cheers B
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 11/5/2019 11:59:20 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7.8K, Visits: 8.4K	We don't support Linux, but have no problem with people setting up an emulation environment to run SkyDemon under such conditions.
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b3nn0	b b3nn0 posted 12/9/2019 9:02:59 AM Post Details Share Post
b Group: Forum Members Posts: 41, Visits: 3.4K	Latest version (3.13.0.0) is working in wine again. Thanks! EDIT: Note however, that I did try to install a bunch of things to get the previous version running (without success). Not sure if it would also work without this. Edited 12/9/2019 9:06:54 AM by b3nn0
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Joachim Zach	J Joachim Zach posted 12/9/2019 11:00:07 PM Post Details Share Post
J Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 4	Thank you for the message. Works for me as well.
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Pischel	P Pischel posted 2/18/2022 8:13:50 PM Post Details Share Post
P Group: Forum Members Posts: 1, Visits: 0	+x Dario70 - 4/3/2016 9:37:22 AM Hello all, For all Linux user that want use Skydemon on linux : http://www.bytebang.at/Blog/Running+SkyDemon+under+Linux+with+wine Link Work 100% on Arch. Happy landings. Hi All, I tried to install Skydemon on Ubuntu using wine. Finally I gave up on wine. Today I decided to use a virtual machine on top of Ubuntu 21.10. The virtual machine software is from Oracle and called VirtualBox. For private use, this software is licensed without fees. Within VirtualBox, I installed Windows 7. Within Windows 7 I installed Skydemon. It works just fine. All this was done in less than an hour. I recommend to follow this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3tatME9k4 Worked for me. Best regards, Jochen
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Erdie	E Erdie posted 2/26/2022 3:39:06 PM Post Details Share Post
E Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 0	I recently got it running with wine under Gentoo Linux. For setting it up I used the tool Q4wine, with actually does all the winetricks stuff and furthermore creating a new enviroment. Make sure that is is 32bit! I run the dotnet 4,72 winetricks scripts and it finally worked. There is one feature missing: If you move the curser over certain airspaces, it does not show up a tooltip like window which explains the airspace structure at that point. This is not a big issue because you can see it on the virtual radar as well or you just need to check the bounderies on the map. But I did not discover any other flaws, it is completly useable. If you stress the application window: Resize, fullscreen, toggle window mode and something like that a crash might happen. I got it twice in the last weeks but when do normal planning stuff it looks stable. I will keep on running it in wine because using a VM for it is just a overkill and the wine version is much faster. It is incredible fast compared to Virtualbox. Just ask if you have futher questions.
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Nik	N Nik posted 4/28/2023 1:17:28 PM Post Details Share Post
N Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 0	+x Erdie - 2/26/2022 3:39:06 PM I recently got it running with wine under Gentoo Linux. For setting it up I used the tool Q4wine, with actually does all the winetricks stuff and furthermore creating a new enviroment. Make sure that is is 32bit! I run the dotnet 4,72 winetricks scripts and it finally worked. There is one feature missing: If you move the curser over certain airspaces, it does not show up a tooltip like window which explains the airspace structure at that point. This is not a big issue because you can see it on the virtual radar as well or you just need to check the bounderies on the map. But I did not discover any other flaws, it is completly useable. If you stress the application window: Resize, fullscreen, toggle window mode and something like that a crash might happen. I got it twice in the last weeks but when do normal planning stuff it looks stable. I will keep on running it in wine because using a VM for it is just a overkill and the wine version is much faster. It is incredible fast compared to Virtualbox. Just ask if you have futher questions. I like it on linux (mint) too. But I'm struggling with linux basics. How do you add the dotnet 4.72 exactly? I found it in the Menu "Settings" -> Winetricks -> dlls. I was able to click and install it. But when I start the skydemonsetup.exe in the explorer, I get the error "SkyDemon requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2" What is missing?
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b3nn0	b b3nn0 posted 5/22/2023 10:46:00 AM Post Details Share Post
b Group: Forum Members Posts: 41, Visits: 3.4K	If anyone is interested: I created an installer-script for Lutris, which will install all needed dependencies. It will also configure wine to use a virtual desktop, otherwise the mouse-hover popups will not work. If you don't like it, feel free to disable that. Let me know if something isn't working, and I'll try to add it. Lutris script: name: SkyDemon game_slug: skydemon version: Installer slug: skydemon-installer runner: wine script: files: - webview2: https://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/7b6f380d-d407-4145-b81d-af58f4c19765/MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe - installer: "N/A:Select SkyDemon Setup File" game: exe: drive_c/Program Files/SkyDemon/SkyDemon.exe prefix: $GAMEDIR arch: win32 working_dir: $GAMEDIR installer: - task: arch: win32 description: Setting up wine prefix name: create_prefix prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: app: dotnet472 description: Installing .NET Framework name: winetricks prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: app: corefonts arch: win32 description: Installing additional fonts for proper font display name: winetricks prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: app: gdiplus arch: win32 description: Installing GDIPlus name: winetricks prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: app: gdiplus_winxp arch: win32 description: Installing GDIPlus name: winetricks prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: executable: webview2 name: wineexec prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: executable: installer name: wineexec prefix: $GAMEDIR - task: arch: win32 name: winekill prefix: $GAMEDIR wine: dxvk: true esync: true Desktop: true WineDesktop: 1920x1080 EDIT: Also added it to the Lutris web site, still awaiting approval though. https://lutris.net/games/skydemon/ Edited 5/22/2023 12:01:19 PM by b3nn0
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