Desura client coming to Linux

cb_linus · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:32

For those who have bought games from the Humble Indie Bundle, you may be aware that the games can be attached to both your Steam and also Desura account, if you have 1 or both. According to this post Desura will soon be available on Linux

I have about 16 games from all 3 Humble Bundles and it's great news cos it makes installing native Linux games on Linux that much easier

cb_linus · 3 Aug 2011 at 23:29

Bit of a bump for anyone interested in games on Linux, only a few days left (at time of posting) for Humble Indie Bundle 3 which now includes all the games from the 2nd bundle, since the games are cross-platform that's a lot of Linux games in one go

cb_linus · 7 Aug 2011 at 12:17

VeNT said:
Dropped them an email yesterday to get on the beta!

Let us know how it goes

I'm pretty happy Linux is finally getting its own digital distribution service for games (edit: other than free games that are available with various Linux disctibutions). I think having a game client / service for Linux is as important as getting the games themselves as it will be great to have a centralised database of games available on Linux and a conveneient way to access / purchase / download them without having to look around on the web for Linux specific installers of Windows games

cb_linus · 20 Sep 2011 at 19:02

Beta's out

cb_linus · 22 Sep 2011 at 17:42

Beta client seems to work fine so far, although I had to install libpng12 to get it working on my current distribution which is Open Suse. I have a load of games from the Humble Indie Bundles so I installed World of Goo and moments later, I have a fully working game client on my Linux desktop and a working game installed

cb_linus · 1 Dec 2011 at 22:00

Major bump - the Humble Introversion Bundle is now available on Desura

cb_linus · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:29

LizardKing said:
Well gave it a try registered my games and none of them would launch.
Upgraded to Fedora16 and the latest Nvidia drivers, still no joy.

Not a good start!

Any errors when run from command line? I've had the odd problem where the client would crash during installation but seemed to work fine when I restarted it, currently on Mint 12.

It might be worth checking out the forums and reporting a possible bug if no one else has the same problem?