Please add Linux version

[Snowiiii]

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Hello, Currently there is only a Windows .exe file available, can you please provide a linux executable aswell

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[TazerXI]

I am not a developer for the project, nor know how to make a native Linux executable for this. However, a while ago I was playing flight sim on Linux, and want to return to playing on Linux after seeing some issues on Windows. Whilst I never got the installer to properly work using wine/Proton, I am going to try again to see what I can get working using compatibility tools. I never got very far before when trying on Proton, but I can try again and see if I can get some components (such as Simbridge) working without the installer as a whole. And you can get the main FBW aircraft as a direct download from the aircraft github repo, or from the website, and they work.

When trying to see if building the installer on Linux would work, (I think electron is meant to be cross platform I think), I just get this error.

And clicking away from the error just gives me a plain blue window.

My knowledge on this stuff is practically 0, and have exams over the next month, so don't have any hope in me getting a working solution any time soon. I'll reply in the unlikely case that I get somewhere on this.

[TazerXI]

Unlike last time, I have gotten the installer to run fairly easily, and actually load, something that I hadn't before without graphical issues or crashes.

Steps I did:
Requirements: git, nodejs, wine

1. Clone this GitHub repo
   git clone https://github.com/flybywiresim/installer
2. cd into the downloaded directory
   cd ./installer
3. When trying to run the development server from here, I encountered the above issues. However, running to build the package as .exe did work, so long as I had Wine installed
   npm run package
4. Finally, I ran the built executable using Wine
   cd ./dist/
wine ./FlyByWire_Installer_setup.exe

I haven't tried to just run the executable you can download by itself, only the one I built on my system.

After that, the installer was fine, and seems to work alright. I said that I did not have MSFS installed on my PC, and pointed to my community folder. From there, it saw my installed addons, and downloaded an update for them successfully. Simbridge even worked, with the external MCDU out of the box which I am really shocked about. I did have a crash trying to load the a380 with the installer opened already, however, closing the installer, and loading in with the a320 and then opening the installer worked. It even made an application menu and desktop icon shortcut for me, which worked to run the installer.

[TazerXI]

Finally, some notes on me using the installer executable from the website.

Trying to run the installer just using Wine didn't work, and gave the same error I remember from before when I tried this a couple of years ago.

However, running the installer exe through Protontricks, and selecting my MSFS prefix does seem to work fine. However, no desktop icon is created, nor is it added to my list of application automatically.