Skip to main content

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

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus. · By Young Horses

Linux version not unpacking properly when installed with the itch client

A topic by CreateADebate created Jun 16, 2020 Views: 489 Replies: 3
Viewing posts 1 to 3
(2 edits) (+1)

Hello, 

I got this game from the Racial Justice bundle and went to install it from the itch client on Linux. However, after I do so, when I go to launch it, the client finds no executables. Looking at the install folder in the client, I can see that the game has not been unpacked. The tar.gz package is sitting in the "octodad-dadliest-catch" folder. Could you look into fixing this? I have also submitted an error log to the itch client team in the event this is on their side of things. 

Edit: the folder is "octodad-dadliest-catch", not "deadliest" as I originally wrote

Developer(+1)

Hi,

Sorry about that, we never supported the itch client.  But I guess it's automatic? I can try uploading a version that's not tar.gzipped, but can you let me know if the Linux version even runs if you extract the tar.gz somewhere? And what distro you are using? It is 32-bit and the last officially supported distro was Ubuntu 14.04. 

Developer(+1)

I have updated the linux version to not be tar.gzipped (as itchi.io instructs) to be compatible with the itch client.

(3 edits)

Hi, thank you so much for fixing this so quickly! I can confirm that the itch client now unpacks the installation properly. I can also launch and play the game without issues (at least, none that I can see). I am using Debian 10 on a 64-bit computer, but I have multi-arch enabled so I can install and run 32-bit programs as well.

There is only one small issue that I have not been able to resolve. Launching the game from the itch client leads to extremely garbled sound output. However, if I launch the executable directly from my file manager or from a terminal, the audio is fine. I don't know why using the itch client causes this, but I'm happy to help you diagnose this further if you are interested in fixing this.

Edit: changed some wording to be more clear