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Linux: install in another directory

Mar 07, 2021 SuperTranca link
Hello,

Is it possible to install Vendetta online on Linux in a directory other than the one suggested? I have my HOME directory quite tidy and I would like to keep that order if I installed the game.

Thanks a lot !
Khendras
Mar 09, 2021 We all float link
You can install it in any directory.
Mar 10, 2021 biretak link
new to linux?
Mar 11, 2021 rastro link
Khendras from Perpetuum?
Jul 16, 2021 phoenixbyrd link
rename .sh to zip > extract > rename back to .sh > rename extracted file to .zip > extract > rename extracted install folder to Vendetta and move where ever you want. ~/Games/Vendetta or /opt/Vendetta for example.
Aug 05, 2021 yodaofborg link
To the "you can install it to any directory" answers above - no, you cannot, it installs to ~/.vendetta - only the location of the link can be changed during install (~/bin/vedentta is a symlink) - the installer actually offers no other option.

You can extract the contents of the .sh file as above, I think there is a command line option to make it easier, but the end result is the same. But as VO makes no system wide assumptions, and the contents of ~/bin really do not matter (who uses that link anyway?), you can install to ~/.vendetta and then move that folder to where ever you like, and as long as it isn't installed as the root user and owned by the executing user (or group) it will run just fine.

You could also make a symlink at ~/.vendetta to point to the real location, or whatever. The only cravat to any of this is the root user must not own certain files, or VO will cry about it, and the user running VO MUST own the files (or belong to a group that does).