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PushyGeoDuck wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:41 pm This may be something already covered, but not only am I new here on the forum, but also new to Love...yes, a total Noob...

When I found Love2D, I said, "I must have this on my development box", which is a Linux machine (Mint 20.3 Una-cinnamon). I wanted to use VS Code as my IDE as well. As I started the installs, everything went great. In my terminal I ran:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bartbes/love-stable then sudo apt update, and finally sudo apt install love

When complete, I created a folder on my desktop and added my main.lua file. Opened VS Code, installed all the Love2D extensions and opened my new folder with the lua file. I went to run my new love file to be met with errors stating that no executable could be found. I tried updating the path in VS Code and ran many different commands, all with the same result.

I went digging through the internet trying to find something that stated how to run Love files on Linux. I got nothing...Sadly, there is little information (that I could find) out there on how to do this. I even saw on a forum, stacktrace I think, where someone just gave up and went to Windows to run Love. After some time with hope fading, I wound up falling on a YouTube video where someone was developing a game on Linux with Sublime, and I happened to catch how they executed the file. A full day of searching and here is the result:

Open a terminal
cd into the folder where your love/lua files are
type: love .
--yes there is a space between e and .
press enter

I cant say for certain on other distros, but this is how it operates on Linux Mint. Sadly, you cannot use the ctrl+l feature like in Windows in VS Code, but I've simply opened the terminal in VS Code, and when I'm ready to check my game, I just run the love . command there, which opens just fine.

For anyone that struggled with running Love2D on Linux, I hope this finds you well.

Regards,
-PGDuck

print("banana")

GVovkiv wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:09 am

PushyGeoDuck wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:41 pm This may be something already covered, but not only am I new here on the forum, but also new to Love...yes, a total Noob...

When I found Love2D, I said, "I must have this on my development box", which is a Linux machine (Mint 20.3 Una-cinnamon). I wanted to use VS Code as my IDE as well. As I started the installs, everything went great. In my terminal I ran:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bartbes/love-stable then sudo apt update, and finally sudo apt install love

When complete, I created a folder on my desktop and added my main.lua file. Opened VS Code, installed all the Love2D extensions and opened my new folder with the lua file. I went to run my new love file to be met with errors stating that no executable could be found. I tried updating the path in VS Code and ran many different commands, all with the same result.

I went digging through the internet trying to find something that stated how to run Love files on Linux. I got nothing...Sadly, there is little information (that I could find) out there on how to do this. I even saw on a forum, stacktrace I think, where someone just gave up and went to Windows to run Love. After some time with hope fading, I wound up falling on a YouTube video where someone was developing a game on Linux with Sublime, and I happened to catch how they executed the file. A full day of searching and here is the result:

Open a terminal
cd into the folder where your love/lua files are
type: love .
--yes there is a space between e and .
press enter

I cant say for certain on other distros, but this is how it operates on Linux Mint. Sadly, you cannot use the ctrl+l feature like in Windows in VS Code, but I've simply opened the terminal in VS Code, and when I'm ready to check my game, I just run the love . command there, which opens just fine.

For anyone that struggled with running Love2D on Linux, I hope this finds you well.

Regards,
-PGDuck

Well, you can try in VS Code:
ext install sumneko.lua -- it's dependencies for next extension, with lua syntax check, etc
ext install lwz7512.love2d-made-easy -- love documentation, syntax and most important is love launcher (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... -made-easy)
Then open shortcuts, find there "loveme.love2d" and change it to your preference

But, for some reasons, this extension can't print anything into output, so no

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print("banana")

for you...

its my understanding, and it could be wrong but I could not get it to work, that the way flatpack/snaps is sandboxed it cannot get to /usr/bin/love (typical love2d install location). Installing the non-sandboxed version allows me access to it.

On the atom side of things, the extention gives me a "play" button at the top and it runs it directly.

Running from the terminal is the same as it is in the gettingstarted page. once love is install type "love" and the path to the folder containing the love game/code. so in my case love ~/Game_Projects/Love2d/MyLoveGame1

alias lovegame="love /path/to/game"

Then change sandboxing permisions:
Flatpak https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sand ... sions.html
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1086529 ... -directory
Or GUI https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.gi ... 4.Flatseal
I don't use snap so i don't know much about them, but snaps should have same system of permisions as flatpaks:
https://snapcraft.io/docs/security-sandboxing

On the atom side of things, the extention gives me a "play" button at the top and it runs it directly.
Love extension that i mention also do that, and, most important, author updates it more often then https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... yte-love2d