Client fixing for Debian based systems

[staysalty 2]

So, apparently nobody knows what Linux is or how to use it so today I'm going to go ahead and save some other geek like me a big ass headache and show you how to fix your client (you can thank me later). We're going to go ahead and do all of this via terminal, because we are geeks, and geeks like black terminals with green font!

 

 

Step 1:

You're going to have to find where the cache is stored. For some reason Runex is weird and doesn't store their cache in the /home folder on Linux systems. So you're gonna need to use the find command:

sudo find . -type f -name "*runex*"

This regex should do to find where the cache is stored. You could always decompile the Jar and find the exact path that way, but I don't have a regex to match directory paths handy so this will have to do. If for some reason this does not work it's because the cache dir is hidden (skip to step 2a)

 

 

 

Step 2:

Once you have discovered where the cache is stored on your system, delete ALL of it, also delete the client while you're at it:

sudo -s << EOF
rm -rf /some/cache/path
rm /some/path/Runex.jar
EOF

 

 

 

Step 2a:

This step is only for if you are unable to find the cache dir via the find command. Do the following:

cd ~ && ls -a | grep "rune"

This will pull anything that has rune in the name, you should see something along the lines of .runex and .runex-data. Now that you have found them do the following:

sudo -s << EOF
rm -rf .runex
rm -rf .runex-data
rm /some/path/Runex.jar
EOF

Now you can move to step 3.

 

 

 

Step 3:

Remove Oracle-9, yes, you'll need to get rid of the 9 beta, because apparently environment variables do not matter at this point:

sudo -s << EOF
apt-get purge oracle-java9-installer
apt-get update
EOF

 

 

 

Step 4:

Alright now that's all out of the way we're gonna go ahead and reinstall the client:

 wget www.runex.io/assets/Runex.jar

This will download it into your current inventory, so make sure you are somewhere you want to be. You can also download it without the terminal by going here: https://www.runex.io/assets/Runex.jar

 

 

 

Step 5:

We're gonna have to open it with Java8 so just to be sure we're going to open it from the directory viewer:

 

And finally, after all this has been done, you should now be able to right click and play the game efficiently. Good luck.

Edited February 2, 2018 by staysalty

[Kliksa 162]

I've gone ahead and popped this into guides, Thanks for the guide.

[Jean Paul 38]

Hey @staysalty

Very detailed and correct guide. People would be surprised how many players actually use Debian based systems. +1!

Regards,
JP

[Nat 20]

Massive thumbs up for this guide. Hopefully this will help a lot of Linux users out. 

Just to check I booted into linux and followed this (and I am glad to say it worked). 

 

Good Job. Nice to see we have fellow Linux users too  

[zazen 0]

Hey I have done everything as you said, but I wasn't able to play by right clicking and selecting java8.

Only running from command line: "java -jar Runex.jar" it finally worked.

Just posting this for all other people still having issues.

Follow the guide (delete cache and client, then redownload .jar file).

Then download java jre 8, by using this two commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre

After installation is complete you have to change default java version, use this command then type number corresponding java8 version:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

after that is done, just use command below to load Runex:

java -jar Runex.jar

Hope it helps somebody!

 

[hardee 0]

Help!!! when trying to run runex, it keeps saying "Detacted non-windows operating system.