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Installing the mod loader on Linux or the Steam Deck using Wine
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Installing the mod loader on Linux or the Steam Deck using Wine
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Go to your Windows PC, find the Raft installation folder (explained ) and copy it over to your Linux computer. On my desktop it's placed in ~/Desktop/Raft, so change the paths accordingly to where yours is located.
The same as you would do on Windows. Go to the and place it somewhere (for example, I placed it in ~/Desktop/Raft - my Raft folder).
First of all, if you haven't already, install winetricks. On Ubuntu it's just sudo apt install winetricks.
Run RMLLauncher via Wine: wine64 ~/Downloads/RMLLauncher.exe. It'll ask you for your Raft folder. From what I've checked, updating is fine, injections work and Raft starts.
There's nothing I can do to that - it's a issue that happens on many other Unity games, especially when they're running on Wine. From what I've seen, changing focus to a window on another monitor doesn't trigger this.
Then download Mono 5.0 .MSI from and run wine uninstaller to launch the Add & Remove Software dialog. Point it to the downloaded installer and wait until it completes. After installing Mono, you need another thing: .NET 4.6. It can be installed from Terminal using winetricks dotnet46. It'll warn you about Windows Modules Installation Service missing but that's not a problem.
If your graphics card supports Vulkan rendering then you shouldn't skip this step. Grab a release from , unpack the archive to ~/Downloads/ and run this in Terminal from the ~/Downloads/dxvk_x.y.z directory where x.y.z is the version:
If you encounter any issues or the guide doesn't seem to work for you, please visit the #linux-support channel on our . Also maybe try the Bottles guide (it works better). Our team is more than happy to assist you. 🙂
