Si they are looking for a good application with which they can manage and launch their games from the same site this article may be of interest to you.
GameHub is a unified game library which allows them to view, install, run, and remove games on Linux. Supports native and non-native games from various sources, including Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle and Humble Trove, etc. Non-native games are compatible with Wine, Proton, DOSBox, ScummVM, and RetroArch.
also him allows adding custom emulators and downloading bonus content and DLC for GOG games. Simply put, Gamehub is an interface for Steam, GoG, Humblebundle, and Retroarch.
GameHub you can use steam technologies like Proton to run Windows games. GameHub is a free and open source gaming platform written in Vala with GTK+3.
From the configuration section, we can enable, disable and establish various settings such as:
- Switch between themes.
- Switch to the compact list.
- Enable / disable merging of games from different sources.
- Enable / disable compatibility layers.
- Set game collection directory.
- Establish game directories for each source.
- Add / remove emulators.
- And more.
How to install GameHub on Ubuntu and derivatives?
If you are interested in being able to install this application on your system, you can do so by following the instructions that we share below.
To install GameHub we must add the repository of this to our system, so we are going to open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we are going to execute the following commands.
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tkashkin/gamehub
Done this now We update our package list with:
sudo apt update
Y finally we can install this application with:
sudo apt install com.github.tkashkin.gamehub
Another way to install this application on our system is with the help of Snap packages, so we only have to have the support to install applications of this type in our system.
To install We are only going to execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo snap install gamehub-fenriswolf --edge
If snap or adding repositories is your thing you can choose to install this application with the help of its latest flatpak package stable. We can obtain this by going to the following link and looking for the current stable.
At the moment the current stable one is version 0.13.1-1 and which we can download with the help of a terminal by executing the following command:
wget https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/releases/download/0.13.1-1-master/GameHub-bionic-0.13.1-1-master-1f713f3.flatpak
Now alone we will have to install the downloaded package with the command:
flatpak install
The installation command is as follows:
flatpak install GameHub-bionic-0.13.1-1-master-1f713f3.flatpak
Finally, the last method we have to use this application in our system is with the help of the AppImage packages.
So in the same way as in the previous method, in this case we will have to download the latest stable AppImage package from the link below.
At the moment the most current package is downloaded with:
wget https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/releases/download/0.13.1-1-master/GameHub-bionic-0.13.1-1-master-1f713f3-x86_64.AppImage
After downloading we are going to give it execution permissions with:
sudo chmod +x GameHub-bionic-0.13.1-1-master-1f713f3-x86_64.AppImage
And we can launch the application by double clicking on the downloaded file or from the terminal by executing it with the following command:
./GameHub-bionic-0.13.1-1-master-1f713f3-x86_64.AppImage
And ready with it, we will have installed the application in our system.
How to install games with GameHub?
The application is very simple to use, the first thing you have to do is open it on your system, this is done On the first screen, they will be asked to log in with any of the services that the application supports.
Once this is done, it will appear as a catalog type all the games that they have in their accounts to be able to install.
Now we will simply have to right click on the game of your choice from the list and click on the Install button.
If the game is not native, GameHub will automatically choose the compatibility layer (for example, Wine) that suits the execution of the game and install the selected game.