Documentation - AppImages

• Available AppImages
  • File names
• Basic instructions
• Advanced Options

The Red Eclipse project provides AppImage builds that should work on any recent Linux distribution as an easy, dependency-free way to install and run the game.

Available AppImages

• Stable version
• Development version

File names

• Client: redeclipse-<BRANCH>-x86_64.AppImage.
• Server: redeclipse-server-<BRANCH>-x86_64.AppImage.

Basic instructions

• Download the AppImage.
• After download, give the AppImage executable permissions through your file manager or using the terminal command chmod +x redeclipse-*.AppImage
• You can then run Red Eclipse by double-clicking the AppImage or executing it from a terminal.

Advanced Options

You can set the following environment variables to configure the AppImage’s behaviour:

• REDECLIPSE_APPIMAGE_NO_UPDATE
  • If set, will prevent automatic updating.
• REDECLIPSE_APPIMAGE_NOTERM
  • If set, will prevent the automatic updating from opening a terminal to display progress.
• REDECLIPSE_APPIMAGE_TERM
  • If set, will use the value of this variable as the terminal program to display update progress.