Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

"Voices Of The Void" Pre-Alpha

Gather unknown signals from deep, silent space · By mrdrnose

Cant extract the .PAK file in linux

A topic by TheMZ created Sep 13, 2024 Views: 455 Replies: 3
Viewing posts 1 to 3

NOTE: I KNOW THE GAME IS NOT MEANT TO BE PLAYED ON LINUX BUT  THIS ISNT THE PROBLEM

I tried to install the game but when i extract it the game wont extract and the error was about the .PAK file, i tried many different things like extract it to a windows pc and get the game on a USB stick then put it in my main pc but the .PAK file wont transfer to the USB stick, and i tried to upload the game from the windows pc and then download them from my main pc ,but the .PAK file doesnt download, i also downloaded the game and extracted it multiple times but that didnt work, i dont know if i need to download some stupid crap so the PAK file works on linux or the file is just broken for linux.

Did you use 7zip?

(1 edit) (+1)

It feels like a few issues are going on. To start with, are you sure your stick isn't formatted to FAT32? `VotV-WindowsNoEditor.pak` is above the 4096M threshold of FAT32. On Linux natively, maybe the archive was damaged or something, or Nautilus is acting picky again with its sketchy multithreaded writes?

Try to install p7zip on your main distro (`sudo apt install p7zip-full`, `sudo dnf install p7zip`, `sudo pacman -S p7zip` ...), `cd` to the directory the archive is in, and do `7z x pa08_0017.7z`. Check carefully the output, it might just show what the issue is.

(+1)

I got the game working with the USB stick, it was FAT32 i changed it to NTFS and got the game on it and put on my pc and it worked.

I also tried p7zip but it just gave me "E-FAIL ERROR = 1" or something along those lines.

Anyway BIG thanks for your help :)