OSRS Launcher on Linux Beta

[WorldFamousArtisan]

Lmk if this is the wrong place to post this.

Has anybody tried to set up the Jagex Launcher on Tiny Core Pure 64?

Background: Recently my main Laptop running windows 11 died, so Ive taken the plunge and am learning Linux on a Dell Inspiron 11 from ~2014. I have Tiny Core Pure 64 installed. (Getting a frugal install with Wifi Supportwas quite the ordeal, but that's a topic for another thread.)

A while back Jagex, the company behind RuneScape 3 (RS3) and Old School RuneScape (OSRS), made a Beta for the Jagex Launcher (and game client) on Linux.

I installed the AppImage, but couldn't get it working, so I unpacked it and tried running the AppRun file and the Jagex-Launcher File.

Both complained about Line 19 of the Launcher File trying to open the Jagex-Launcher.bin file, claiming that it can't be found.

The file path it notes does point to where the .bin file is, and running the .bin file lists a bunch of missing libraries.

So I installed and loaded all the missing libraries and confirmed that the .bin file can see them all.

I went back to try running the AppImage, the RunApp, and the Jagex-Launcher files, but I still get Jagex-Launcher.bin can't be found where it is.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

[gadget42]

mostly for future thread visitors convenience:

https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360001313349-Recommended-specifications

[WorldFamousArtisan]

I found some time to puzzle through and this is the process I worked out.

1. Download ' jagex-launcher-beta-linux-x86_64.AppImage ' @ https://osrs.runescape.com/download
2. Give the AppImage executable perms ' chmod +x jagex* '
3. unpack App Image ' jagex* --appimage-extract '
4. In the new folder, verify the following items have executable permissions
   A. AppRun
   B. jagex-launcher
   C. jagex-launcher.bin
5. Install bash.tcz and file.tcz
6. run ' ldd jagex-launcher.bin | grep "not found" ' and note all the missing Libraries.
   A. I was missing the following:
      I. . . . . .   libnspr4.so
      II. . . . .    libnss3.so
      III. . . . .   libnssutil3.so
      IV. . . . .   libsmime3.so
      V. . . . .    libcups.so.2
      VI. . . .    libgtk-3.so.0
      VII. . . .    libudev.so.1
   B. I installed the following:
      I. . . . .     nspr.tcz (libnspr4.so)
      II. . . . .    nss.tcz (libnss3.so, libnssutil3.so, and libsmime3.so)
      III. . . . .   libcups.tcz (libcups.so.2)
      IV. . . . .   gtk3.tcz (libgtk-3.so.0)
      V. . . . .    udev254-lib.tcz (libudev.so.1)
   C. I'm sure somebody more familiar with Linux than I, could get the .so files more directly.
7. 'file ./jagex-launcher.bin' returns that it's expecting a /lib64 directory, but TinyCorePure64 does not have this directory.
   A. Make a backup of the jagex-launcher.bin file
      cp jagex-launcher.bin jagex-launcher.bin.bak
   B. Install patchelf.tcz
   C. change the interpreter path:
      patchelf --set-interpreter /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./jagex-launcher.bin
8. You should now be able to open the Jagex Launcher. ./jagex-launcher.bin
   A. The window was bigger than my screen so I had to use (Ctrl + Alt + M) then (Ctrl + Alt + Minus).
   B. Additionally, no text would render for me until I made the window small enough. (edit: I after the text rendered, I could return the window to a bigger size without issue.)
9. You can now uninstall file.tcz and patchelf.tcz. (bash.tcz is needed to run the ./jagex-launcher.bin command.)

I've just got the launcher to open so far.
I'll post an update when I get a chance to actually hop in the game.
Edit: While the Launcher does launch, selecting Log-in on Web fails to launch a webpage, and Log-in on App opens another window, immediately crashes and closes.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Note: you may be missing different libraries than I do. I used the Apps App to find tcz's with the libraries I needed.
1. Open Apps and Select Browse.
2. Change ' Search ' to ' Provides '
3. Type in the exact library you need. eg ' libgtk-3.so.0 '
4. From here I:
   A. Checked if I already had any tcz listed,
   B. Found the Smallest tcz listed,
   C. Checked the ' files ' list for the smallest tcz to see if it covers any others I need. (You could rerun the ldd command on the .bin again between each tcz install.

[Juanito]

      patchelf --set-interpreter /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./jagex-launcher.bin

That's interesting, I didn't know you could do that.

[ekaputrigame]

Nice write-up - the patchelf step is the part that catches most people, since Pure64 has no /lib64 at all.

On the login window dying straight away: that embedded browser usually needs more than nss and nspr. I would check libgbm and libxkbcommon next, and try without the sandbox once.

Amusing timing: a new action title just sold 4 million copies in its first 72 hours with 830k concurrent on Steam, so plenty of people are fighting launchers on Linux right now.

[Rich]

Hi ekaputrigame

... since Pure64 has no /lib64 at all. ...

64 bit web browsers also look for /lib64. Web browser extensions
deal with it in their  /usr/local/tce.installed  file like this:

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if [ ! -e /lib64 ]
then
        ln -s /lib /lib64
fi
Though the  patchelf  binary does offer several other interesting
options besides just changing the interpreter path.

[WorldFamousArtisan]

I am not sure if the following are needed, as I already have other programs that have these on their dependency list.
   A. libxkbcommon.tcz
   B. libEGL.tcz
Thank you ekaputrigame forthe suggestion.

There are 2 Options for logging in once you have the Launcher working:
   A. On App
      I. This seems to cause an immediate crash, I do see a Cloudflare box appear for a moment but nothing populates in the terminal.
   B. On Web
      I. This options fails to open a webpage, but does populate an xdg-open error in the terminal.
      II. I didn't have xdg on my system, so I installed xdg-utils.tcz
      III. this allowed the Launcher to open a new tab on PaleMoon (My Default Browser), but Palemoon does NOT support CloudFlare natively
         a. If you're committed to using Palemoon, there is a workaround, but I didn't bother with it. (Google "Palemoon can't pass CloudFlare")
      IV. I installed brave-browser.tcz (It was the first one to show up on a google search "What Tiny Core Brower supports CloudFlare" for me)
      V. With Brave Installed and Loaded, the Launcher now opens Brave and I can Log in, but the Launcher never recognizes that I've logged in..

At this point I randomly decided to try logging in "On App" again, and it suddenly worked!

I tried uninstalling Brave and rebooting, but then the launcher crashes like before.
So it seems that a Cloudflare solution is needed, whether it's Brave or a workaround on another browser.

for OSRS, I selected my character and hit "Play Now", and nothing happened.
Checking the terminal, it seems to have downloaded RuneLite, which is profoundly disappointing, I really though Jagex would have had the integrity to make their own Linux Client..

The terminal, after installing RuneLite, claims to be "launching runelite for character: MyCharacter" then "Launched RuneLite." but no game client opens.
I tried clicking "Play Now" again, it finds that RuneLIte is already downloaded, and makes the same Launching/Launched Claims again.

This is as far as I'm going to get tonight.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.