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[./play.it] Install Celeste on Linux

A topic by vv221 created Sep 08, 2020 Views: 4,926 Replies: 3

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vv2214 years ago (2 edits) (+1)

Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you can find informations about ./play.it, a tool building packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your installers for Celeste. These packages can be installed easily with your favourite packages manager.

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following page: Celeste

We hope you will enjoy the ease-of-use provided by this tool as much as we enjoy writing and tweaking it ;)

Here you go for more supported games!

Salut camarades Linuxiens !

Vous trouverez ici des informations à propos de ./play.it, un outil construisant des paquets pour Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo ou nʼimporte quelle distribution dérivée de celles-ci (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) à partir de vos installateurs pour Celeste. Ces paquets sʼinstallent facilement via votre gestionnaire de paquets habituel.

Les liens de téléchargement et les instructions dʼutilisation se trouvent sur la page suivante : Celeste

Nous espérons que vous apprécierez le confort apporté par cet outil autant que nous apprécions lʼécrire et lʼaméliorer ;)

Pour plus de jeux, rendez-vous par ici !

zealottoyako4 years ago (3 edits) (+1)

Hello! :)

So I recently moved from Windows 10 to Linux Pop!_OS and wanted to play Celeste. I downloaded Linux version from here and extracted ZIP file.

To launch the game, you simple need to open the extracted folder and launch file ( Celeste.bin.x86_64 ) and that's all. Everything works great without installing any additional stuff or tweaking. Cheers.

vv2214 years ago(+2)

That’s right, ./play.it is not required in any way to play Celeste on Linux ;)

Its purpose is to improve games integration with your system, by relying on the packages manager, using system libraries instead of the shipped ones, providing menu entries, etc. In the case of Celeste, the main upsides are:

using system-provided Mono runtime instead of the shipped ones
using system-provided SDL2 and PNG libraries instead of the shipped ones
work around terminfo Mono bug, cf. https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/6752
work around Mono unpredictable behaviour with non-US locales

vv2214 years ago

The opening post links have been updated, following the silent deletion of the ./play.it thread in itch.io general forum.