hello all, i recently started using cachyos and tried to install xivlauncher to play ff14, but after running the install stuff, it doesnt show anywhere in the system. if i try to install it again it says its already installed. am i missing something?
Hello and welcome.
We might need more information such as the exact steps followed up til now.
got flatpak remotes to make sure flatpak was installed then ran flatpak install flathub dev.goats.xivlauncher
the guide on the website says to not use sudo so i didnt. when i try to reinstall it it just says that xivlauncher is already installed but i cant find it anywhere to open it
Well flatpaks by their nature should include everything they need .. including a .desktop file (launcher). If not then that would be a them problem.
I suppose you could go searching for things .. maybe using something like;
flatpak info --files dev.goats.xivlauncher
I dont use flatpak either.
But I do note there are multiple xivlauncher* packages available in the AUR;
just tried the flatpak line you gave and it said that –files was an unknown option. how do i download the aur version?
Going by the votes and popularity of the packages on that list, xivlauncher would be the choice. Installing it would be done with:
paru -S xivlauncher
As with other things AUR, it helps to be informed about how it differs from installing software natively:
Though this method will probably work fine for you, I do still think it’d be a good idea to figure out what went wrong with the flatpak version install.
Have you restarted your computer or relogged since installing it?
What does this command do when you run it:
flatpak run dev.goats.xivlauncher
Huh. I read the docs wrong.
But you might go looking in /var/lib/flatpak/app or ~/.local/share/flatpak/app.
The intro above is pretty good.
Make sure to read PKGBUILDs or otherwise be able to trust the source.
Otherwise Cachy comes with the paru pacman-wrapper and aur-helper so you can get going with a simple;
paru xivlaunch
Yeah this too.
Though if this is your only flatpak then we might be able to set the standard of avoiding it and its extra overhead. If you plan on using flatpaks in general then yeah sure tinker and figure out what is wrong and get used to how they work et al.
okay si i tried the flatpak run dev.goats.xivlauncher and that seems to have worked as its currently open and patching ff14 rn. need to find a way to pin it to the taskbar or make a desktop shortcut still though
yes i have tried restarting it and no luck on that front
seems that the flatpak run got it working now though
Then we’re probably just looking for a rogue .desktop file, which should have automatically been placed correctly but apparently hasn’t, like cscs said. As long as the application’s .desktop file is in the right place, it will show up correctly on your launcher.
Yeah that command was just to check to see if it was installed and working. Which is appears to be. That’s the most important part.
Adding the shortcut to your launcher is simple enough. We either find it or create it ourselves. Finding it and moving(or fixing) it would be better.
These would be good places to start.
are those the file places where the .desktop file would be?
Yes, it’s possible. I haven’t used Flatpaks in a while and I know cscs doesn’t use them either so we’re basing it off of what we can read on the internet instead of looking at our own systems’.
Basically, what I’d be asking you to do is locate wherever the application tossed its file and then relocate it to ~/.local/share/applications since I know for sure that application launchers will be looking there.
okay, i found the .desktop file and made sure that it worked (which it does) so i just move the launcher to the file location you said now?
Actually rather than move it, I’d copy it. But yes, to that location. ~/.local/share/applications
thats got it! found the file and made a copy of it in the folder you said, and was able to pin it to my taskbar which opens the game right up. thank you guys for all the help!
Or even better might be a symlink.
( This is like a ‘shortcut’ in windoze world. )
That way its always the same as they have in their desktop file, ie if it gets changed/updated you wont be left with the old version of the file. ex;
ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/app/launcher.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/launcher.desktop
( Of course the correct file path is needed but I do not know what it is. )
I just ran into the same issue, and found some extra odd behavior on KDE plasma. After install, XIVLauncher didn’t appear in the application launcher, BUT, it did have an entry when I went to the KDE menu editor to add it. No matter what I did, it wouldn’t appear in the menu, until I copied and pasted it, then the copy appeared.
Also odd, despite having it’s icon set in the application editor, even the copy is still using the default piece of paper icon, instead of it’s own. Manually setting it to
/var/lib/flatpak/app/dev.goats.xivlauncher/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/dev.goats.xivlauncher.png
Did the trick though