https://github.com/hadess/flatpak-games

Script to create flatpaks from commercial game installers
https://github.com/hadess/flatpak-games

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Script to create flatpaks from commercial game installers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hadess/flatpak-games
• Owner: hadess
• Created: 2016-06-15T17:07:57.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-08-28T16:37:07.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-28T23:09:36.628Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Lua
• Size: 1.09 MB
• Stars: 50
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: README

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• awesome-flatpak - game-to-flatpak - 2018 (Tools)

README

        
# game-to-flatpak

A script to automatically convert Linux game installers in various

formats to flatpak bundles.

## Requirements

 - lua

 - lua-posix

 - lua-socket

 - lua-archive ([from this location](https://github.com/hadess/lua-archive), [PR](https://github.com/brimworks/lua-archive/pull/2))

 - luasec

 - unzip

 - flatpak-builder

## Features

 - Supports the MojoSetup installer

 - Supports the MojoSetup + makeself installer (as used by GOG.com)

## Usage

This will add the game to the `repo` directory:

```

./game-to-flatpak [installer file]

```

You will only need to do this once:

```

flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify --if-not-exists game-repo repo

```

Check which games are available in the repo:

```

flatpak --user remote-ls game-repo

```

Install the game for that user:

```

flatpak --user install game-repo com.gog.Call_of_Cthulhu__Shadow_of_the_Comet

```

## Similar projects

 - [Unpacker classes](https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/gamerlay.git/tree/eclass) from [Gentoo's gamerlay](https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/gamerlay.git/)

 - [./play.it](http://wiki.dotslashplay.it/en/start)'s [Debianification scripts](http://www.dotslashplay.it/scripts/)

 - [flatpak-gog](https://github.com/kujeger/flatpak-gog/), a project with similar goals, written in Python

## Out of scope

 - WINE, DOSBox, etc. automagic wrappers are not planned, don't ask for them.