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A gui for Legendary

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Rare

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A frontend for legendary, the open source Epic Games Launcher alternative

Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, based on PyQt5

Logo

Logo by @MultisampledNight available here, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Installation

Installation via pip (recommend)

Execute pip install Rare for all users, or pip install Rare --user for the current user only.

Linux and Mac: execute rare in your terminal.

Windows: execute pythonw -m rare in cmd

It is possible to create a desktop link, or a start menu link. Execute the command above with --desktop-shortcut or --startmenu-shortcut option, alternatively you can create them in the settings.

Note: On Linux must be /home/user/.local/bin in PATH and on Windows must be PythonInstallationDirectory\Scripts in PATH. On Mac is the Path /Users/user/Library/Python/3.x/bin.

Linux

Arch based

There are some AUR packages available:

  • rare - for stable releases
  • rare-git - for the latest features, which are not in a stable release

Debian based

Note:

  • pypresene is an optional package. You can install it from DUR or with pip
  • Do not wonder if some icons look strange, because the official python3-qtawesome package is too old. Many icons were replaced

Other

Install via pip or use the AppImage.

macOS

There is a .dmg file available in releases page.

Note: When you launch it, you will see and error, that the package is from an unknown source. You have to enable it manually in Settings -> Security and Privacy. Otherwise, Gatekeeper will block Rare from running.

You can also use pip.

Packages

In releases page are AppImages for Linux, a .msi file for windows and a .dmg file for macOS available

Latest packages

In the actions tab you can find packages for the latest commits.

Note: They might be unstable.

Run from source

  1. Clone the repo with Submodule: git clone https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare --recurse-submodules.
  2. Change your working directory to the project folder: cd Rare
  3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all required dependencies. If you are on Arch you can run sudo pacman --needed -S python-wheel python-setuptools python-pyqt5 python-qtawesome python-requests python-psutil
  4. Run python3 -m rare

Why Rare?

  • Rare only uses ~50MB of RAM which is much less than the electron based HeroicGamesLauncher uses.
  • Rare supports most major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac) unlike the alternatives.

Issues

If you run into any issues, please report it by creating an issue on GitHub or on Discord: https://discord.gg/YvmABK9YSk

Contributing

There are several options to contribute.

  • If you can Python and PyQt you can implement new Features (Some ideas are in Projects).
  • If you are a designer, you can add Stylesheets or create a logo or a banner.
  • You can translate the application in your language: Check our transifex page for that.

More information is available in CONTRIBUTING.md.

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