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Installing Unity on Linux
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:author: Russell Ballestrini
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:slug: installing-unity-on-linux
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:date: 2019-09-25 18:55
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:tags: Code, Games, Project
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:status: published
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Russell, why are you installing Unity? I thought you were an open source developer and `homegrown video game engine builder </yuletide-trains-and-homegrown-video-games/>`_?!
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|gumyum logo|
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The TL;DR we are starting `a video game co-operative called gumyum <https://gumyum.com>`_. The basic idea is to build a large video game company owned completely by members. There will be no employees and most revenue after paying taxes, operational expenses, and marketing, will be divided among members.
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We are actively looking for members, specifically engineers who want to build games. We already have a distributed team of 4 artists and 2 engineers who meet on Slack as we progress toward delivering our first two games.
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Adopting Unity, at least for our first couple games, will lower the barrier of entry for other engineers when joining the co-operative.
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**Installing Unity On Linux**
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To get started first we will create a Unity Account and install the ``Unity Hub``.
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You need both in order to aquire a free licence for personal use.
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The ``Unity Hub`` software will help you download various Unity versions, manage your licence, and manage game projects.
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You should go to the Unity website and created an account.
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I found the Linux ``Unity Hub`` installer in `this thread <https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-hub-v-1-0-0-is-now-available.555547/>`_ and downloaded it to my ``~/Downloads`` directory.
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Next I opened a terminal and made the file executable, and executed it.
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.. code-block:: bash
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cd ~/Downloads
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chmod 755 UnityHub.AppImage
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./UnityHub.AppImage
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From there I needed to sign in and request a licence. I chose the free option since at this point we have a $0 revenue project.
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On the ``Installs`` tab in ``Unity Hub`` you may download various stable and LTS (long-time-supported) versions of Unity. I suggest using one of these stable versions, I accidentally grabbed a non-stable one and all I had was pink screens inside of Unity!
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Anyways, now you may start a Unity project. ``Unity Hub`` seems to store files locally and also allows you to sync to the cloud. This enables easy collaboration on the same project.
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Thats all for now, please check back for more posts about gumyum!
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.. image:: /uploads/2019/unity-hub-gumyum.png
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:alt: Unity Hub interface
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.. |gumyum logo| image:: /uploads/2010/12/gumyumgameslogo.png
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.. contents::
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