League of Legends (www.leagueoflegends.com) helper script for installing and running on Linux.
The following dependencies should be included in the AUR packages and the
generated .deb
package. If there's anything incorrect or missing, pull
requests are appreciated.
- wine-lol (AUR) or wine-ge-lol (AUR)
- winetricks
- bash
- curl
- openssl
- samba
- lib32-gnutls
- lib32-libldap
- lib32-openal
- lib32-libpulse
- lib32-alsa-lib
- lib32-mpg123
- lib32-unixodbc
- lib32-vkd3d
- vulkan-icd-loader, lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
- Vulkan drivers for your graphic
cards. For example:
- lib32-vulkan-intel
- lib32-nvidia-utils
- lib32-vulkan-radeon
- lib32-amdvlk
- zenity (optional for loading screen indication, see #9)
There is no configuration file. The game is installed at
~/.local/share/leagueoflegends/
by default. If you want to change the default
location of the wine prefix or other parameters, please feel free to modify the
script.
Please choose either of the two versions. The first one (recommended) depends
on M-Reimer's wine-lol and wine-lol-glibc, and does not require changing kernel
parameters. The second one depends on GloriousEggroll's wine-ge-custom, and
requires setting abi.vsyscall32=0
, which may have a negative impact on the
performance of other 32-bit wine applications.
Arch User Repository (AUR) | Debian/Ubuntu | Manual installation |
---|---|---|
leagueoflegends-git | ./package.sh debian sudo dpkg -i leagueoflegends.deb |
sudo make install |
leagueoflegends-ge-git | ./package.sh debian sudo dpkg -i leagueoflegends-ge.deb |
sudo make install-ge |
- First install the game:
leagueoflegends install
.- Please do not log in or launch the game during installation.
- When the Riot client appears and if the installation progress stucks at 100%,
close the window, and run
leagueoflegends install
again.- For more detail, check out this thread.
- Exit the window when the game installation is finished. (The progress circle disappears.)
- Start the game:
leagueoflegends start
. - Log in with your Riot credentials.
- Now the League client should show up. Please try a practice match to make sure everything works.
- To remove the game:
leagueoflegends uninstall
.
Note that if you use Nvidia graphics card and have trouble launching the League client or start the game (after champion selection), please check out the troubleshooting section.
leagueoflegends -h
can be used to view the full list of options and commands.
[!] Usage: leagueoflegends [options] <command>
League of Legends - helper program
Options:
-h, --help Print this message and exit
-v, --verbose Enable verbose output
Commands:
start Start LoL
install Install LoL
uninstall Uninstall LoL
reinstall Reinstall LoL
start-garena Start Garena
install-garena Install Garena
uninstall-garena Uninstall Garena
reinstall-garena Reinstall Garena
add-dxvk Install DXVK to the LoL wineprefix
del-dxvk Remove DXVK from the LoL wineprefix
rm-dxvk-cache Remove DXVK cache
cleanup-logs Remove log files
kill Kill the wine processes of the wineprefix
kill-garena Kill the Garena wine processes
run <cmd> Run shell command with environment variables
run-garena <cmd> Run shell command with environment variables
- First install Garena:
leagueoflegends install-garena
- Choose the region when prompted.
- There are two wine prefixes (environments) involved in this setup. Both
Garena and LoL will be installed in
~/.local/share/garena/
. However, the game will be launched from the other prefix,~/.local/share/leagueoflegends/
. - It's recommended to not change the default location of Garena, which is
C:\Program Files\Garena\Garena\
. If you do want to change the default location, remember to also change it in the script. - Once Garena is successfully installed, it will be automatically started. Please log in and go ahead to install LoL from Garena.
- LoL will by default be installed at
Z:\Garena\Games\
, which is in most cases not desirable. Please change it toC:\Program Files\Garena\Games\
, or any other location you desire as long as it is consistent with the script variables.
- Exit the Garena window when the game installation is finished.
- Kill the Garena process to finish installation:
leagueoflegends kill-garena
.- Because the process will only be minimized to system tray upon exit.
- Start the game:
leagueoflegends start-garena
.- This will start Garena. Navigate to LoL and press "Play" from Garena.
- Similarly, it may take a while (usually less than 5 minutes) before the game shows up, due to this issue.
- To remove the game:
leagueoflegends uninstall-garena
. - To also remove the environment from which the game is launched:
leagueoflegends uninstall
.
leagueoflegends kill
would use wineserver --kill
to try to kill all the wine
processes of the current wine prefix, which can be helpful if some error
happens and the script hangs.
leagueoflegends run <...>
can be use to run any command with the wine-related
environment variables, such as WINEARCH
, WINEDLLOVERRIDES
, and WINEPREFIX
.
This way, you could easily run wine utilities like leagueoflegends run winecfg
, or leagueoflegends run winetricks
, etc.
If you use Nvidia graphics card and have trouble launching the League client or
start the game (after champion selection), please exit the game (with
leagueoflegends kill
or leagueoflegends kill-garena
if you are running the
Garena version) and then try leagueoflegends rm-dxvk-cache
before restarting
it. This should only need to be done once to clean up the old cache, since DXVK
caching is currently disabled.
(Reference)
If the issue still remains, you may want to purge and reinstall the Nvidia related packages as described here.
Alternatively, as a quick (and dirty?) solution, remove the nvidia
package and
install nvidia-dkms
instead. Remember to also install the kernel headers
packages according to your kernel (e.g., linux-headers
). Then reboot and
reinstall LoL.