2y ago

Lutris WINE .NET Issue During Game Installation - `Failure Processing Application Bundle`

Im trying to install a game through Lutris using the game's installer and I keep coming across the same error that I can't really find much information on. It seems to be an issue with dotnet itself or the actual game installer and not WINE though, so I am unsure how to proceed.

This part seems to be describing the issue.

Failure processing application bundle. Failed to create directory [Z:\path\to\executable\/home/$USER/.cache/dotnet_bundle_extract\] for extracting bundled files.

Some more details:

The game is installed using an installer
The game is made with Unity 2021 with a Mono version equivalent to .NET 4.8

Here is what i have tried so far (Updated):

Reinstalling Mono in the prefix using WINETRICKS
Uninstalling Mono and installing .NET 4.8 using WINETRICKS
Editing the register in the WINE prefix to show .NET 4.8 being installed (you can see this in provided logs, but I am unsure if I am doing it correctly)
Creating a symlink to the users home directory (whis 'works' but it installs DLLs outside of the prefix)

I am unsure of what to try next, and any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Can you follow the instructions here to manually install the game and then switch the same WINE prefix to the game executable after the installation is finished. That should guarantee that they're installed on the same WINE prefix.

Well for one thing, that's a really strange directory structure. The Z drive is referring to a WINE prefix, so I'd go into the prefix directory and determine the correct path that it should be pointing to, and then find out what its calling that incorrect path and fix it.
I just looked at the script you posted, can you try running echo $GAMEDIR in a terminal and see what it's defined as in your environment variables? If that's the cause of that odd path, then you can update it by running export GAMEDIR=/home/$USER/new/path/to/game
- Yeah, its pointing out of the wine directory too.
  I actually 'fixed' it by creating a symlink to the home folder, and the installer ends up creating a folder with a set of DLLs:
  D3DCompiler_47_cor3.dll
  PenImc_cor3.dll
  PresentationNative_cor3.dll
  vcruntime140_cor3.dll
  wpfgfx_cor3.dll
  I think some of these could be installed into the prefix using winetricks, but I'm not sure about the others.
  Although this does 'work' (and by work i mean it gets rid of the current error, the entire installation process is still borked but now it's just further down the line) I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the fix. Ideally, I would prefer everything getting installed to reside within the WINE prefix. Finding out what was throwing the path error would probably help but I'm not sure how to figure that out or if it could even be changed.
  
  You can install Dotnet in Linux natively, that might be a better option than trying to use Mono. Try sudo apt search dotnet | grep installed to see if you already have some of it installed. I have all of the following packages installed locally on Pop!OS aspnetcore-runtime-6.0 dotnet-apphost-pack-6.0 dotnet-host dotnet-hostfxr-6.0 dotnet-runtime-6.0 dotnet-sdk-6.0 dotnet-targeting-pack6.0 dotnet-templates-6.0 dotnet6. You probably don't need all of those installed, I think just sudo apt install dotnet6 will install all of the other packages as dependencies when you install it.
  I'm not really familiar with Game Slug but you said you're using Lutris? Is it possible to try installing it through Steam or Heroic Games Launcher? I'm more familiar with those. Also, can you tell me which game it is that you're trying to install? That might help.
  
  Another thing I just thought of is that maybe the installer executable isn't being run by the WINE prefix made for the game? It could explain how the path is both pointing to the installer's directory even if outside of the prefix, and why its trying to install dependencies outside of the game's prefix

@ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social @bgtlover@linuxrocks.online
I got it to work!
Clearing the environment variable by adding system: env: DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR: DLLs allowed the launcher installer to properly handle the DLLs by creating a folder in the Game's directory.
It appears that the game installs and launches fine, I've yet to test the actual gameplay, but that's next.
- @BloodSlut @ShaunaTheDead hohoho, a good head start! I had to clear some environment variables from time to time as well, especially when it comes to wine stuff misinterpreting some vars I thought are only for some specific programs I use, so it's not the first time such happened to me. Glad it worked for you, also glad you worked out what env var to clear.
  
  I appreciate the help!
- Oh, that's great!
  
  Thanks for your help!

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