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Sunday, October 25, 2015

LGOGDownloader: Command Line GOG.com Game Downloader For Linux [Ubuntu PPA]

LGOGDownloader is an open source command line GOG.com game downloader for Linux, which uses the same API as the official GOGDownloader (which unfortunately is not available for Linux).

The tool can download GOG.com games (including language-specific installers if available), list / download updated files, resume unfinished downloads, repair downloaded installers, download extras such as artwork or manuals and more.

GOG.com is a computer game sale and distribution service which delivers DRM-free video games. Linux support was added on July 25th, 2014.

LGOGDownloader features:

List available games (simple and detailed list);
Batch downloading;
Repair downloaded installers/extras;
Resume unfinished downloads;
Cover downloading;
Perl regular expressions for filtering games;
Download speed limiting;
Checking for update notifications;
List/download updated files;
Check for orphaned files;
Check file status;
Blacklist files.

Install LGOGDownloader

The LGOGDownloader Ubuntu PPA is outdated, so I uploaded LGOGDownloader in the main failsdownloads PPA for Ubuntu 14.10 and 14.04 (it can't be built on older Ubuntu versions).

Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10 (and Linux Mint 17, etc.) users can install LGOGDownloader by using the main failsdownloads PPA. To add the PPA and install the tool, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lgogdownloader

If you don't want to add the PPA, you can grab the deb from HERE.

LGOGDownloader for other Linux distributions:

Arch Linux: AUR stable | git
Debian
Source code

Using LGOGDownloader

The first thing you need to do after installing LGOGDownloader is to login. To do this, run the command below:

lgogdownloader --login

Then enter your GOG.com email and password.

After logging in successfully, a configuration file called "config.cfg" is created under ~/.config/lgogdownloader/ You may want to change a few things from this configuration file, so open it with a text editor - using the command below, the config.cfg file will be loaded in Gedit:

gedit ~/.config/lgogdownloader/config.cfg

In this file, you can change the platform, language, choose if you want to download tar.gz files ("no-targz") and/or deb files ("no-deb"), limit the download speed and so on, so change any options you want, then save the file. For instance, to only download the Linux binaries, change "platform" from "5" to 4".

Then, list your GOG.com games by using the following command:

lgogdownloader --list

To download a game (in the current directory), use the command below:

lgogdownloader --download --game GAMENAME

(where GAMENAME is the game name as displayed by the "lgogdownloader --list" command).

Some more LGOGDownloader usage examples can be found HERE.

To view all the available LGOGDownloader options, run:

lgogdownloader --help

Report any LGOGDownloader issues you may find @ GitHub.

Wasteland 2 Officially Released

After 2,5 years of development, Wasteland 2, a single player post-apocalyptic RPG developed and published by inXile Entertainment, was released today and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com, Steam or Humble Bundle Store.

Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to 1988's Wasteland RPG, which is considered to be the inspiration behind the Fallout series, and it was developed thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign which received almost $3,000,000 in funding.

Below you can watch the Wasteland 2 Combat Trailer as well as the launch trailer, to get an idea on what the game is about:

(direct video link)

(direct video link)

Wasteland 2 is a turn-based tactical combat game set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998. The game features hundreds of characters, thousands of variations on your Rangers' appearance along with over 150 weapons, dozens of skills and more. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.

On Linux, Wasteland 2 has the following minimum system requirements:

Processor: 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB VRAM)
Hard Drive: 30 GB available space

Buy Wasteland 2

Buy Wasteland 2 ($39.99 for the classic edition and $59.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition*)

If you buy the game via GOG.com, you can download it using lgogdownloader, a tool which supports resuming unfinished downloads along with other useful features.

* The Deluxe Edition comes with free copies of Wasteland 1 and The Bard's Tale games)

via Reddit