Installing 20.0 on Linux?

[er3shkigal]

Hey all, I'm fairly new to both VS and Linux, so I'm at a loss on how to install it on my computer and give the latest 20.0 release a try. As far as I can tell, it needs .dotnet runtime 7.0, but since that's no longer a supported version, I'm having trouble getting it installed. I'm on Bazzite (a Fedora distro).

The current 19.0 flatpak installs without a hitch, though, so it might be that I just need to wait for 20.0 to be final and released there?

Anyway, any ideas or help is welcome. Thanks!

[god_ferny]

so little hacky way to install it but it works so /shrug

download the zip from the website

install the flatpack version

navigate to
 

cd var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra

rm -rf vintagestory

then copy and paste the zip file with 20.0 in its place

 

 

[er3shkigal]

1 hour ago, god_ferny said:

so little hacky way to install it but it works so /shrug

download the zip from the website

install the flatpack version

navigate to
 

cd var/lib/flatpak/app/at.vintagestory.VintageStory/current/active/files/extra

rm -rf vintagestory

then copy and paste the zip file with 20.0 in its place

 

 

The actual zip file still zipped or unzipped into a folder?

[Deadeye_Rob]

As a Steam Deck user, I'm quite interested to see a guide in more detail for this.

Flatpak works brilliantly on the deck but is currently only updated to the previous 1.19.8 version.

I'm assuming we're referring the the Linux Version Zip file?

[er3shkigal]

Yes, the Linux Version zip file.

Unfortunately, I've given it a few tries and haven't gotten very far. I got farther using Wine to install the Windows version, but that crashes on world creation for me. Getting 20.0 working might be a little too advanced for a Linux newbie like myself, so it looks like I'm waiting for the full release. Thank you for the suggestions, god_ferny!

[er3shkigal]

I saw god_ferny posted a how-to post similar to their suggestion here and gave it another go. It worked this time!

Deadeye_Rob, maybe this will work for you on the Steam Deck.

[Onkelz-Freak1993]

In case anyone finds this topic, to get vintage story running on:
(Edit: Guide may work on other derivatives of Debian.)

- Linux Mint 21.X, first type the following command into the terminal and then run the install.sh again:

sudo apt install dotnet7

- Linux Mint 22 and above, first type the following commands into the terminal and then run the install.sh again:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dotnet/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install dotnet7

Edited February 7, 2025 by Onkelz-Freak1993

[Exiled Hermit]

On 2/1/2025 at 4:35 PM, Onkelz-Freak1993 said:

In case anyone finds this topic, to get vintage story running on:
(Edit: Guide may work on other derivatives of Debian.)

- Linux Mint 21.X, first type the following command into the terminal and then run the install.sh again:

sudo apt install dotnet7

- Linux Mint 22 and above, first type the following commands into the terminal and then run the install.sh again:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dotnet/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install dotnet7

I can confirm that this works on Ubuntu 24.04. I was able to launch the game after this. Also, before I found this post, I made a wineprefix with dotnet7 installed on it. I used Lutris, but the game didn't detect dotnet7.