Hello,

because I'm running Ubuntu on my Laptop and some of my GOG Games offer a Linux version I installed some of these. This worked fine with "smaler" *.sh files like Shadowrun Returns (1GB) or Flatout (1.2 GB) but it fails on Bigger games like Grim Fandango (4.3 GB) or Wasteland 2 (10 GB).

By calling the *.sh I only the message "can't open *FILENAME*" nothing else.
Has anyone an Idea what's the reason could be? Could it be caused in using a 32 Bit Ubuntu Version? How can I install the games anyway?

regards
Carkun

Check your memory usage while running the installer, could very well be the 32-bit Ubuntu trying to load the entire installer into memory which may not fit (I'm not sure whether a 32-bit Linux is limited to 4 GB RAM).

use free -h -s 1 before running the installer, then report the usage as you start the installer
free is a console application that shows you memory usage
-h shows you in units easily interpreted by humans rather than showing everything in bytes (K, M, and G for Kilobytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes rather than just numbers in the millions or billions).
-s 2 shows every 2 seconds until you quit with ctrl-c (else you'll just get the usage once)

Can you post your command line?

Can't help you much but according to the requirements for Wasteland 2 it requires a 64 bit OS (operating system). Thus this game will not run on a 32 bit OS. On the page for Grim Fandango it says that it only comes with a 32 bit binary so the fact that your OS is 32 bit should not be a problem there.

On a side note. Are you sure you need to use the 32 bit version of Ubuntu? If your processor is 64 bit then a 64 bit OS would be the natural choice.

This seems to be about the installer though, which should run on 32-bit even if the game doesn't (though installing it is a rather useless exercise in that case).

Hello @All and thanks for all the clues,

I think it was not the best idea to try installing Wasteland 2 I was just thinking about the usability of the game with the touch pad not about the resources of the system. Its an older system with just 2GB of physical Memory so I think Wasteland is a little ambitiously.

free -h tells me, that I can use 1,1 GB of RAM and about 9 GB on my swap partition.

Grim Fandango also requires 4GB of RAM. Does the Setup Script validate this value? If than it is ok to deny the installation but it could be communicated on a better way (better error message).

So I think I will have to keep playing Shadowrun (and BW Kronos and ... ;)) which works fine at the Laptop.

Thanks for all your support,
Carkun

Try cd'ing to the game directory and typing "bash ./<filename>.sh" (omitting the quotes and replacing <filename> with the correct name of course.)