Tool Ren'Py Ren'Py 7.x / 8.x Linuxizer and reinstaller script

[nothingreallymattress]

Latest update: 2024-09-09

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It occasionally happens that a Ren'Py 7.x or 8.x game is distributed without functioning Linux support. The attached script will acquire the appropriately-versioned Ren'Py SDK (either directly from renpy.org, or from a local cache) and install it in the appropriate location within a game directory.

Directions for use:

1. Download the attached script. (You may rename it anything and save it anywhere.)
2. Set the user-executable bit on it (chmod u+x ...).
3. While cd'd into a Ren'Py 7 or Ren'Py 8 game's top directory (the one with both game/ and renpy/ subdirectories), run the script.

Features:

• Caches the downloaded Ren'Py SDK to ~/.renpy/.sdk-cache, and prefers that cache's contents to redownloading.
• Will replace any existing/provided Linux binaries with known-good ones (in case you suspect file corruption).
• Fixes broken executable-file permissions, just as a side-effect.
• 32-/64-bit agnostic.
• Passes shellcheck without warnings.
• (2022-06-20) Downscales too-large window-icon files which may result in X11 errors.
• (2022-09-04) Now also supports RenPy 8.0.x!
• (2023-08-01) Now also supports RenPy 8.1.x!
• (2024-04-12) Now also correctly supports RenPy 7.6.x!
• (2024-09-09) Now also replaces the renpy/ directory.

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[unroot]

tried it with ./renpy82linux.sh Meet_Cute_Delivery/
and all i got was: renpy82linux.sh: This doesn't seem to be a Ren'Py game directory.

Game: this (__init__.py file says it's 7.4.5) (had changed the spaces in the dirname for underscores to avoid that source of error)
Used OS: Devuan Chimaera (Debian Bullseye based)
renpy2linux.sh worked always fine (after changing all "python" into "python2")

 

[nothingreallymattress]

tried it with ./renpy82linux.sh Meet_Cute_Delivery/

Try (cd Meet_Cute_Delivery/; ./renpy82linux.sh) instead. (See "Directions for use", point 3.)

 

[unroot]

Try (cd Meet_Cute_Delivery/; ./renpy82linux.sh) instead. (See "Directions for use", point 3.)

This way it works... now i have to tweak my scripts a bit as that syntax differs from the old renpy2linux.sh ways

 

[nothingreallymattress]

Updated for Ren'Py 8.1.x.

 

[bigguy_foryou]

Does anyone know why I would be getting "couldn't determine Ren'Py version"? According to log.txt (after running the game with WINE), the version is 7.6.3.

 

[nothingreallymattress]

Does anyone know why I would be getting "couldn't determine Ren'Py version"? According to log.txt (after running the game with WINE), the version is 7.6.3.

Can you post:

• the game's renpy/vc_version.py file? (This should be five lines at most.)
• the output of grep version_tuple renpy/__init__.py?
• the output of the script, after changing bash -eu to bash -eux?

 

[bigguy_foryou]

Can you post:

• the game's renpy/vc_version.py file? (This should be five lines at most.)
• the output of grep version_tuple renpy/__init__.py?
• the output of the script, after changing bash -eu to bash -eux?

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PS. I am aware this game has a Linux release. Whenever developers stupidly split the two builds rather than bundle both in a Win/Linux release like most of them do I typically grab the Windows version and fix it up with one of these scripts for reasons.

 

[nothingreallymattress]

I typically grab the Windows version and fix it up with one of these scripts for reasons.

I understand completely. I run the script on everything even when the Linux version isn't provided separately.

Anyway, the issue here was that in Ren'Py 7.6.1+, the line version = u'7.6.3.23091805' has a u in it. Apparently I'd added handling for this to my local copy but never uploaded the fix. That's been done now; you should just be able to get the latest version.

 

[bigguy_foryou]

Anyway, the issue here was that in Ren'Py 7.6.1+, the line version = u'7.6.3.23091805' has a u in it. Apparently I'd added handling for this to my local copy but never uploaded the fix. That's been done now; you should just be able to get the latest version.

Nice, thank you. I think it failed to attach though, or I am blind.

 

[nothingreallymattress]

Nice, thank you. I think it failed to attach though, or I am blind.

Ouch! Apparently so. Fixed now, I hope?

 

[bigguy_foryou]

Ouch! Apparently so. Fixed now, I hope?

Working as intended!

 

[duncanscott960]

Hi, I used renpy82linux.sh quite a bit, but I've noticed now that newer game downloads are giving an error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'winreg'" after I've run it on my Linux machine. Has anyone else come across this and know what to do? Not very technical, I'm afraid.

 

[nothingreallymattress]

Has anyone else come across this and know what to do?

I have not. Can you give an example game that this has happened with, as well as exactly what you typed to result in the error?

(That looks like a Python error, so I assume it happened after you tried to run the game...)

 

[nothingreallymattress]

Update for 2024-09-09: the script now also replaces the distributed renpy/ directory.