 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to be showing you how to install Hearthstone on Linux. Now this is specifically going to be focusing on Arch Linux so if you're not on Arch the steps are going to be just a teensy bit different. For the most part though they should work. You'll just have to alter them to work with whatever package management system your desktop happens to have. If you're going to replace the pacman-s you know terminology with apt install. For the most part every package that I'm going to install today should be in every distros repos. I'm not going to guarantee it or anything but for the most part it should work and I will link to some resources in the video description below that should give you instructions on how to do this on other distros. I know there are written instructions for Ubuntu and Arch. I'm pretty sure there's also instructions for how to do this on Fedora so if you're one of those weird people who game on Fedora I mean seriously all respect to you man. I've never been successful in gaming really well on Fedora. That's just I mean not that I've spent a lot of time on Fedora but that's just the way things seem to happen. Granted when I use Fedora I mean this is completely off topic I had an Nvidia card so chances are that was probably my problem so it probably worked fine now that I'm on all AMD. Anyways so what we're going to do here is jump into a terminal and yes you have to be willing to use a terminal in order to do this. You probably could install some of these dependencies through like the GNOME software store but some of them you'll have to use a terminal in order to do if you're using a GNOME or something or Ubuntu. For Arch I'm just going to assume you are comfortable with a terminal so we're going to zoom in here so you can actually see and you need two packages to start off so you need to do sudo packman and you need to you know not be like me and you know not know how to spell and do capital S and then you need to do Lutris and you need wine okay now I should already have Lutris installed but I don't think wine is actually installed and once again I have to type in my password correctly there we go now if you see this there are a ton of dependencies here and yes I do have what Lutris installed I do not have wine installed um now if you're on an Arch system that um you've installed yourself it's not an Arch dependency you're going to have to go and edit pack uh pacman.com for one of those files and enable the the 32-bit libraries you'll have to google how about how to do that I'm not going to show you in this thing but if you don't have those things enabled in that configuration file you will not be able to do this because all these libraries come from that uh library set in the arbitrary post those are automatically installed I believe on Ubuntu because there was this big brouhaha a few years ago where they said they were going to disable them but they because of the brouhaha they decided not to so you should be able to just do this you know without enabling anything on Ubuntu but on Arch you do have to enable that in the configuration file so I'm gonna go ahead yes here and wait for this to install now you should while we're waiting for this you should notice that I'm better let today I've installed a new light here I'm hoping that takes care of that weird focusing issue that I was having on the last few videos so we'll see this shouldn't take too long no it's gonna be just fine this will not be the last thing we have to install so just bear with me so we're done there so the next thing we're going to do is go ahead and quit out of this terminal here and launch go ahead and launch Lutris this will take a couple seconds the load times on getting Lutris to actually start up it's a little slow even on this computer so just bear with it but Lutris was unable to detect Vulkan support for the I-83 architectures so that means just basically what this means is we're gonna have to install some more dependencies so I'm going to click on this link here and of course that's going to open up a browser on a completely different workspace here and we're going to click this link here and then scroll down we'll zoom in a little bit so you can see this is the so this right here is we're telling you how to enable the 32-bit libraries we should have if you've installed Lutris you've already done this because otherwise you would not be able install Lutris and if you're running an NVIDIA card you need to run this package install these packages here I'm on an AMD system so I'm going to run this one here I'm going to control C I'm going to do a different tag open up a browser terminal zoom in so you can see paste that in enter a password and hit yes so so I have a couple of these but not all of them okay now I'm going to go ahead and go back to Lutris hit okay and I'm actually what I'm going to quit Lutris again I know this sounds weird but I want to make sure that it's loading with all the dependencies that it needs so I'm going to quit and Lutris again right it should probably won't be as slow right okay so the next thing we want to do is search for Hearthstone so you want to click on Lutris over here in the side bar and then just search Hearthstone now the process for this will actually be kind of the same for any free to play game especially for Blizzard.net now obviously if you want to install any of the other games that Blizzard has you'd have to go through and pay for them you can't just this isn't some cool way to pirate software these are actual games that basically what this is doing is allowing you to install the actual game from Blizzard on your Linux machine so next thing I want to do is hit install and now we got a couple more things to do so we should have already done this one here at the top but we're going to do it we're just going to it's not going to hurt anything to make sure I'm going to scroll down to the large stuff again again if you're on a boot to follow the boot to installation processes processes and like I said I believe I've already done this but we're going to try again so troll V and I'm just gonna like so I'm just go ahead and reinstall in that way just in case and then the next one we need to do is click on this one here and then this one here and we need to scroll down to the arch one here and we need to copy these and again this if you're using a different distro just use those and then go back to four and do so pack s and then copy this here and then hit yes now I know a couple of those I already had but again it doesn't hurt anything to reinstall at this point so now we just go back to Lutris and hit install okay and then now you're going to want to select a place where you're going to store this on your hard drive I'm just going to put in in a folder that Lutris will create itself called games right in the home directory it's perfectly fine and then it will create its own hardstone folder within there and we just hit install this is going to take a bit but they're basically you're in the home stretch now you may end up having to hit yes a couple times while it installs some fonts but we'll see how that goes especially if you're um so the next thing I wanted to continue yep and then we just want to install a couple times and install again and install again is basically installing fonts we're actually very close just a few more things that's going to install what always surprises me about this is that it doesn't require root everything else on Linux in order to install it requires root now the dependencies obviously require root but because this is running in an emulation layer it doesn't require root it's always just really seemed odd to me all right now we're going to install battle.net we don't want that clicked actually hit next then this from here on out this is basically the same installation process you'd go through if you're installing this on windows or mac it's just getting those dependencies first you know I'll probably cut some of these scenes out so that you don't have to wait through the whole process especially once we get to actually installing Hearthstone because now see this here now we're going to just enter your username and password I will be cutting this out so you don't get my username and password all right and we're in battle.net now if you're in a window manager you want to make sure you're in full screen mode or if you're on DWM make sure you're in in monocle mode or something like that now if you're in you'd probably be better off in a desktop environment because you're going to get some weird artifacting like this thing here I always just drag this out of the way it doesn't happen all the time sometimes it does so we want to go down here and click Hearthstone oh it's not going to work here we oh here we go maybe yeah all right and then install and then we want to go ahead and I'm going to turn off enable auto update I want to be able to choose when things are updated and we don't need to create a desktop show the shortcut just hit start install and I'll go ahead and install this and we'll cut back to when it's done okay that took about I don't know about seven minutes or so um and yes I'm still looking to the wrong camera having multiple cameras is really weird anyways now you should be able to just hit this play button again make sure if you're in a window manager that you're in full screen otherwise it probably will creep out on you just hit play and what a bam what a boom you're in Hearthstone that's how you install Hearthstone uh it should work perfectly fine uh it's a card game so you're not going to see once you're done and hit quit for that first time you'll see this here and then you can just either select these things here if you want short cuts and then you can just hit close and then anytime you want to install it you want to install it or excuse me anytime you want to run it you want to do it from Lutris okay so you open up Lutris and then if you navigate away from here you should be able to uh hit play and then it would just launch just like normal you don't want to launch it from somewhere other than Lutris because that's where you installed it from if you try to install uh if you try to play it from somewhere else just like the desktop icon I'm not sure what would happen it might work uh but I'm pretty sure that you'd have some problems anyways and you can just quit this and then you're done so that is how you install Hearthstone on Linux uh I will say this I tried to do this for years you know it just did not work for me this is the first time I'm not here on camera but just recently this is the first time I've had any success installing anything on wine and it works uh so the experience there has gotten way better in the last couple years because like I said I'd never been successful until this point now whether or not I would be successful if I want to install another game I don't know uh maybe I'll do another video on another game we'll see we'll experiment anyways that is it for this video I just want to say make sure you follow us on Twitter and Facebook uh it's twitter.com slash the Linuxcast facebook.com slash Linuxcast you can support us on Patreon Patreon by going to patreon.com slash Linuxcast and with that in mind I'd like to thank Devon C and Marcus B for being our patrons thank you for watching I'll see you next time