Linux and modding

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I've been away from modding--and basically away from Civ 5--for a couple years. How have Civ 5 and the modding scene been by the way? How's everyone feeling about Civ 7, for one?


Anyway, once again, I've tentatively started thinking about getting back into Civ 5.

However, a few months ago I switched from Windows 10 to Linux, something I've been wanting to do for years.

A few days ago I did a little testing, just to make sure mods I've downloaded work. Unfortunately, one of them--Fantastic Ancients, a mod I made in 2022--did not work, but crashed the game repeatedly.

I believe I need to get Civ 5 to log problems with mods and such. With Windows I would find the directories for this in "My Documents."

Does anyone know where something roughly equivalent would be in Linux?

I'm using Linux Cinnamon Mint 22, and Civ 5 is installed through Steam.

Anyway, I hope the fanatics forum is doing well these days.

 

[nobody57692]

i also use linux mint, try protontricks.
Take a look at this link, and you'll understand it better. I used this method for modding in a few games, and it worked.

https://github.com/TeaDrinkingProgrammer/Civilization-V-Vox-Populi-on-Linux.

Hope it help.

 

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Fortunately, I did manage to figure out my issues with Civ 5. I found that I can access Civ 5's mods and such via Home>.local>share>Aspyr>Sid Meier's Civilization 5. I got my mod working and other mods working as well. I forced compatibility for Proton 6.3-8. It all seems to be working right now, which I'm very happy about. Don't know when I may start modding again, but for now I'm just glad it works

 

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So, I've discovered a new issue. While I'm now able to play the mods downloaded from the Steam workshop, when I launched Sid Meier's Civilization 5 SDK and click ModBuddy, I get a message saying "The Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell Redistributable is required to run this application. Would you like to download and install it now?" When I click Yes, I'm taken to vspartner.com, which doesn't seem to load.

For those using Linux who have created mods, how do you do it? When I click the SDK's Discussions or Guides buttons it just takes me to the Steam landing page.

 

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So, I've discovered a new issue. While I'm now able to play the mods downloaded from the Steam workshop, when I launched Sid Meier's Civilization 5 SDK and click ModBuddy, I get a message saying "The Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell Redistributable is required to run this application. Would you like to download and install it now?" When I click Yes, I'm taken to vspartner.com, which doesn't seem to load.

For those using Linux who have created mods, how do you do it? When I click the SDK's Discussions or Guides buttons it just takes me to the Steam landing page.

Believe I have a copy of the VS 2010 installer I can send over. Not sure if it works on Linux as from what I've heard the dev environment for Civ 5 modding today is unstable on Windows let alone when run through Wine/Proton.

 

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I discovered that I actually have a copy of vsisoshell.exe already, quite fortunately. I backed it up when switching to Linux a few months ago, good foresight on my part. Thank you for the offer though.

I'm still learning Linux though, so this is as far as I got. I don't understand the errors as the end. It seemed like it was running the program, and then . . . decided to stop.

sudo apt install vsisoshell.exe
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package vsisoshell.exe
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'vsisoshell.exe'

 

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I discovered that I actually have a copy of vsisoshell.exe already, quite fortunately. I backed it up when switching to Linux a few months ago, good foresight on my part. Thank you for the offer though.

I'm still learning Linux though, so this is as far as I got. I don't understand the errors as the end. It seemed like it was running the program, and then . . . decided to stop.

sudo apt install vsisoshell.exe
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package vsisoshell.exe
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'vsisoshell.exe'

sudo apt install is only used for packages native to your Linux distro (in this case Linux Mint/Ubuntu), try running sudo apt install protontricks to install the program that's used for running windows games and programs on Linux. Once done I believe you should be able to right click the exe and select run through protontricks (or through the command line). Unfortunately not sure how installers work through Wine so you may get another error.

 

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Thank you, I succeeded in getting Prototricks as you recommended, but got an error when I tried to run it the exe. Any other ideas?