I see that some people having an issue to install MB2 on linux and as i've helped several people to installed it i would like to share it with everyone. Official installation guide on wiki is still relevant but people have difficulties with .NET installation​


  1. Download Jedi Academy from Steam
    You need to enable Proton in Jedi Academy Steam settings to be able to download it
    Then you don't need Proton support because MBII runs natively on linux via OpenJK which is cross-platform​
  2. Let's setup x32 libraries. Open terminal and run this command

    CentOS/Fedora/RHEL
    Bash:
    sudo yum install glibc.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++.i686 libcurl.i686
    Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
    Bash:
    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt updatesudo apt install libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386 curl:i386
  3. Download official .NET CLI. It's a program that is a replacement for the launcher, it downloads MBII to your game directory and also checking and updating your game when you run it. You need to unpackage all files to your GameData directory inside your game folder
  4. Now we need to download .NET 6.0. Microsoft no longer officially supports .NET 6, so we can't install it with package managers(apt,dnf). So we need to do manual installation and import .NET environment variables to bash. Run this commands in terminal

    Bash:
    wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh -O dotnet-install.sh
    
    chmod +x ./dotnet-install.sh
    
    ./dotnet-install.sh --channel 6.0
  5. Improt environment variables to bash

    Open bash config with nano or vim
    Bash:
    nano ~/.bashrc

    Paste this lines to the end of the file and save it
    Bash:
    export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/.dotnet
    export PATH=$PATH:$DOTNET_ROOT:$DOTNET_ROOT/tools

    Open new terminal session or run
    Bash:
    source ~/.bashrc
  6. Navigate to your GameData folder in the terminal and run this command to start downloading MBII

    Bash:
    dotnet MBII_CommandLine_Update_XPlatform.dll
  7. When installation is done, just run mbii.i386 and enjoy it. You can also create application shortcut of this file if you want
 
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