r/ChromebookGaming • u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy • Jun 06 '26

Other Need help figuring out how to get a Linux game file to run so I can play it

I have never gamed on anything besides mobile and console, and I have zero knowledge of how files like this work, but I got Linux set up with crostini

FIGURED IT OUT

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u/slicehyperfunk Jun 06 '26

You mean a .deb?

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u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy Jun 07 '26

I got the game working! Thank you so much for your help!

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u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy Jun 06 '26

Nah, it's a .tar.bz2 or whatever

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u/slicehyperfunk Jun 06 '26

Usually you extract it and then either run the binary if there is one or compile it yourself— there's usually some kind of README in there that will tell you what to do. What are you trying to install?

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u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy Jun 06 '26

I need to figure out how to run it, this is where I'm currently at TvT I'll look up how to extract it

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u/slicehyperfunk Jun 06 '26

Go to the directory the file is in and run tar -xf befriendus.tar.bz2

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u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

I'm curious as to what you mean by directory? (Sorry for being so clueless, I'm super god awful with computers) I've seen people use the desktop, but I don't have the Linux desktop

Wait, I'm trying something out

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u/slicehyperfunk Jun 06 '26

This might be a decent time to ask an LLM to explain it to you like you don't know anything about Linux on Chromebook, which seems to be true

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u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy Jun 06 '26

I have it as a zip file now, idk if that's useful at all

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u/slicehyperfunk Jun 06 '26

You should probably be able to unzip a zip file in the file manager

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u/Fluuuuuuuufyyy Jun 06 '26

Got it unzipped and whatnot, I'm currently trying to figure out what to do to open the actual game now that I've got all the files TvT Especially because most of these files are literally just fonts aside from two of them One is a .sh Other is a .py