Thanks Amos and Blubberquark Software for looking into this - I've updated butler to 15.19.0 and games are now installing correctly on the ntfs partition.
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itch.io Community » itch.io » itch app Development · Replied to Amos in Problem installing some games on Linux
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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS 64 bit - let me know if you want any more information on my setup and I can try to look it up. It does look like there is a program to extract zip files as it manages to extract them fine in another install folder in a different partition (see my reply to Blubberquark Software's post below)
itch.io Community » itch.io » itch app Development · Replied to Blubberquark Software in Problem installing some games on Linux
I admit i'm not entirely sure how to check which of those is mounting it. The directory is in a NTFS partition mounted by /etc/fstab - the relevant line is here:
UUID=1646E9926F0B62FE /home/jen/Media ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0
Interestingly, I have been able to install games in my home folder (~/.config/itch/apps), which is in the same ext4 partition as the root directory. From this I have gotten a hacky solution to this issue where I install it into the home install folder and then just cut+paste the files over to the other partition, from which I can still run the game but obviously will cause complications down the line if anything ever needs updates.
itch.io Community » itch.io » itch app Development · Created a new topic Problem installing some games on Linux
Hi, I've been trying to install some games using the itch app on Ubuntu 18.04 and there's been a problem with most of the ones I've tried. The games seem to download - the loading screen in the bottom right shows the download taking place - but then it just stops, it doesn't go into the library and the button on the game goes back to "Install" rather than "Launch" (it briefly shows "Installing..." but goes back to "Install").
I've tried to install the following games and none of them have worked:
The only game I've managed to install correctly is Baba Is You.
I've managed to run A Short Hike by just downloading the file from Firefox and extracting the zip file, and it seems to run fine, so it does appear to be an issue with what the app's trying to do.
I've tried looking at the logs in ~/.config/itch/logs and I'm not sure entirely what's going on, though there is an interesting difference in that Baba Is You seems to be extracting a .tar.gz file while all the others are extracting .zip files. In case it helps, I've included the lines in the log for the failure of A Short Hike as an example in the link below. The other failed installs produce results similar to this with similar error messages.