Trouble running Epic Games Launcher

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pcapazzi
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Trouble running Epic Games Launcher

Post by pcapazzi »

Hello,
I've been trying to install the Epic Games Launcher. I found this on WineHQ which says it's Gold. There are no instructions though. I tried simply running it as

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wine EpicInstaller.msi
which failed. After Googling I see there is an msiexec function available and tried that which got me much further wine

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msiexec -i EpicInstall.msi
. I think the following happens after installation and during the first run of the application. The screen says it's Installing Prerequisites but in the console I see a continuous loop of this error message:

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00ed:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x144
. I CTRL-C the operation and try running it again I get the same error message. If I run the executable with the parameter

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-SkipBuildPatchPrereq 
it runs but has trouble... the screen is missing components.
jkfloris
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Re: Trouble running Epic Games Launcher

Post by jkfloris »

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msiexec -i EpicInstall.msi
Maybe the "-" is a typo, but the command is:

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wine msiexec /i whatever.msi 
# or
wine start whatever.msi
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