Install Flashpoint-Player On Fedora Silverblue With Toolbox
The Downsides of Running Flashpoint-Player This way
Sometimes games won’t work at all, but most do, though.
You have to manually shut down Toolbox after you are done using Flashpoint-Player.
Sometimes randomly audio will be very crackly, I can’t fix this.
Toolbox Or Distrobox
I’ll be using Podman and Toolbox but if you use Docker and Distrobox or mix however, it’ll all work the same.
If you haven’t setup Toolbox before, enter terminal and run toolbox enter and create it.
Once it’s setup, you’ll know you’re inside your Toolbox container when you have a purple dot next to your username.
Run sudo dnf update in toolbox and press Y when asked.
Installing All The Dependencies And Flashpoint-Player
Installing Dependencies
Inside the Toolbox container run sudo dnf install php wine xorg-x11-server-Xorg libXcomposite.i686 gtk3 nss press Y when asked.
- If you find yourself running into issues in the future it might be a dependency issue, Flashpoint provides a list of dependencies here.
Installing & Setting up Flashpoint-Player
While everything installs, go to the Flashpoint website and download the latest version of Flashpoint-Player.
Once the download completes, open the file manager, extract it and rename the folder to “.Flashpoint”.
Decide where you want this folder, it will be where all the games download and run off and changing the location is a hassle, I recommend moving it to your home location.
After moving it, I recommend downloading the Flashpoint-Player logo and placing it in the “.Flashpoint” folder, so you’ll have a desktop icon later. I’ve left a download link.
Running Flashpoint-Player
The dependencies should’ve downloaded by now so you can run Flashpoint-Player.
Inside the Toolbox container, run cd ~/.Flashpoint && chmod+x start-flashpoint.sh && ./start-flashpoint.sh.
Don’t get too excited we can’t play games yet at the top bar go to “Config” Scroll down till you see a “Flashpoint” section.
You need to set a “Flashpoint Path” this will be your “.Flashpoint” folder.
After you set it, restart Flashpoint-Player by scrolling to the bottom and clicking restart. Now Flashpoint-Player will be fully working, and you can play games.
Creating The Desktop Icon
Open your text editor and copy and paste what I’ve left below. Don’t forget to change “YOURUSERNAME” to your username.
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Flashpoint Player Exec=/bin/toolbox run /home/YOURUSERNAME/.Flashpoint/start-flashpoint.sh Icon=/home/YOURUSERNAME/.Flashpoint/icon.png Terminal=false
Save this file named as “Flashpoint.desktop” to “.local/share/applications” inside your home folder. After a few seconds, you should have a desktop icon, and you’ve finished! You can now play your favorite childhood games.