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How to install and play Roblox on Linux – Guide
Although Roblox is not officially compatible with Linux, Wine’s compatibility layer for Windows startup programs can run Roblox Player and Roblox Studio on Linux.
Running Roblox with Wine requires Wine 6.11 or later. As of July 22, 2021, this needs to use a development release. Accordingly, the latest versions of Wine are available on Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, unstable nixpkgs, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Void Linux and WineHQ provides binary packages for development versions for Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.
Install Roblox game on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS Linux
As it is a Windows program, so to install it on Linux, we only have one option, which is to use Wine HQ, so we won’t give any guarantee that it will work perfectly on your system, however, just try it because it worked well in our case.
The steps provided here will also work for earlier versions of Ubuntu, such as 19.04 / 18.04 / 17.04 / 16.04 including Linux Mint.
1. Add Wine GPG key and repo
To install the latest version of Wine HQ on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTs Linux, first add your GPG key and then using the second command get the Wine repository on your system.
wget -O – https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add –
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
Also, enable 32-bit Artchetecute support:
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
2. Run system update
To make sure our system successfully recognized the newly added repository, run the system update command to rebuild the repo cache.
sudo apt update
3. Install Wine HQ on Ubuntu Linux
Now install Wine HQ, a Windows program loader for Linux operating systems.
sudo apt install –install-recommend winehq-stable
4. Download Roblox Studio & Player launcher for Windows
We cannot download the Roblox setup directly from the official website, where it is only available in AppxBundle or UWP app format which can only be installed using the Microsoft store on Windows 10 or 8. So here we will download the Windows 7 version of some third party sites like Filehorse. (Don’t worry, it will automatically update to the latest version once installed). You can also use any other website. Here is the link to get the Roblox executable file on your Linux. Once the download is complete, you will get the RobloxLauncher.exe file from your Linux download directory.
5. Install Roblox with Wine on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Now, just right-click on the executable file and select “Open with another application” and go to the “Wine Windows Program Loader” application.
6. Launch the Studio installation wizard
Before installing Roblox on Ubuntu Linux, Wine will ask you to install the Gecko and Mono installer for your system. Do it. Once the process is complete, the system will launch the Roblox installation wizard and will also update the oldest version to the latest available one.
7. Allow Roblox Linux Desktop Icon to Launch
You will see the game icon on the Ubuntu desktop, to make it executable, right-click on the icon and select the “Allow launch” option.
8. Start this virtual world game
Double click the shortcut icon to start the Roblox game on your Ubuntu 20.04 Linux.
9. Login
When you are prompted to login, do that to use it even more, new users can simply create a new account.
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