Installing GOG Games via CLI
2026-07-03 00:53 UTC
Hey all,
I have been searching online for this question, but was not able to get a solid answer. Is there a way/playbook for installing proton (regular and GE), setting prefixes, installing the GOG game, all over CLI?
The closest thing I found to this was maybe github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher, which I saw mentioned in wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gaming#Game_launchers.
This question is more of me trying to learn more about game configuration on Linux over command-line rather than just relying on Steam, Lutris, Heroic, to do all the hard work for me. Any suggestions for this would be highly appreciated.
Replies (3)
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@moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2026-07-03 01:04
I used to use innoextract to extract the launchers, and the the system wine to run it. Although sometimes I have to run extra installers that put dlls in the right spots. You should probably just run the installer in lutris (which ships a proton distributution) or bottles.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-07-03 09:01
would like to do this without sites.google.com/site/gogdownloader/, if possible I guess you’ll have to write your own API wrapper script then. There’s a bunch of libraries for Python and Rust at least.
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@smeg@feddit.uk 2026-07-03 09:08
I think Heroic uses GOGDL