Happy that everything works in Linux so far

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#1

Hi, my name is Syd, I live in London and am hoping to develop VR games in the (hopefully) not too distant future. As a Linux fanatic who doesn’t have a Windows PC or Mac, I was a little worried when signing up to this course that I’d have to use Windows or MacOS, but so far I’ve been able to follow everything using Linux (Ubuntu 16.04). Here are the steps in get up and running on Linux in case anyone else is interested:

  1. sudo apt install clang
  2. sudo apt install codelite
  3. Link your github account with Unreal.
  4. Download UE4 (I recently downloaded 4.13.0 - works well with Ubuntu 16.04).
  5. Unzip (or untar) the UE4 download.
  6. cd UnrealEngine-4.13.0-release (<-- will be different if you downloaded a different version).
  7. .Setup.sh
  8. .GenerateProjectFiles.sh
  9. make UE4Editor UE4Game UnrealPak CrashReportClient ShaderCompileWorker UnrealLightmass

That’s basically it! The binaries for Linux will be created in UnrealEngine-4.13.0-release/Engine/Binaries/Linux (again, may differ depending on what version of UE4 you downloaded). You can start the UE4 editor by double clicking ‘ue4editor’ in that directory.

#2

Surprisingly its very simple to build UE4 on Ubuntu and the process is pretty much automated so you can go out for a coffee and return back to see it finished. It takes around 20 minutes on my quad core.

But I had several glitches on Ubuntu , crashes and weird behavior. So even though it definitely works , personally , I would not recommend it. But yeah if you must use Linux its doable.

As I said in the other thread if you make commercial game then installing on Windoom for testing is mandatory. But if you do it for fun Linux is ok.

#3

Thanks for this, please also see this discussion which I point a few people to. I’ve made it a wiki so you’re welcome to edit it, and add value for other potential Linux users: Using Linux with Unreal Engine

#4

@Dimitris_Chloupis - You must have some serious hardware if it only took 20 minutes! The fastest I’ve seen Step 9 (from my post above) finish in is 40 minutes on a 6700K with 64GB RAM and an m.2 SSD. What version did you build? 4.13.0? Maybe I need some faster RAM :slight_smile:

#5

because I did not follow your instructions I followed the official instructions here

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Building_On_Linux

so in the end I just issued make without the parameters you have used, maybe it build less things hence the faster build times. I am also not 100% sure it took 20 minutes but I think it was around that time. I am talking only the make command , again with no parameters.

Last thing I have build was 4.10 or 4.9 , after I had those crashes I gave up on it and MacOS is my main platform anyway. So I am no authority on the subject.

#6

64 gigs wooooowwww awesome, never even saw a computer with one :stuck_out_tongue: ! All I got is an i3 laptop with 10gigs of ram. Haha I seriously need a new computer for this course I guess.

-PH

#7

Hi guys,

I am getting some trouble in setting up unreal games on ubuntu because I dont find the Epic Games’s repository? The one that is mentioned in the tutorial does not exist anymore (https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git).

Can you help me, please ?

Regards,
Fred Gomes

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