What dependencies does Vortex have?

[tomtheclone]

I'm trying to troubleshoot some Linux installation issues. I know it's not officially supported, but there has been mixed success in the community, and a good starting point for me would be a complete official list of what Vortex needs to run.

 

I've tried searching for this myself, but all I can find is that it requires .Net. I don't know what version, nor what else it might requires (surely VC is needed too).

 

To be clear, I'm trying to install the Windows version.

[Tannin42]

Not trivial to say, Vortex has no requirements that don't ship with an out-of-the-box Windows 10. So the VC runtime for example is shipped with Vortex, you don't have to install it separately.

.Net can be uninstalled manually and on Windows 7 it may be outdated but otherwise any supported, up-to-date, Windows should run Vortex.

 

 

With wine .net is really the only thing I can imagine might be missing.

[rmm200]

I read the request a bit differently. I think he was asking about a native installation of Vortex on Linux - not under Wine.

I could be wrong - and Wine is obviously the simplest way to get it going.

That said - Vortex does use a lot of libraries - and they all seem to have a Linux implementation.

[tomtheclone]

I read the request a bit differently. I think he was asking about a native installation of Vortex on Linux - not under Wine.

I could be wrong - and Wine is obviously the simplest way to get it going.

That said - Vortex does use a lot of libraries - and they all seem to have a Linux implementation.

 

No, Tannin has the right of it.

 

 

Not trivial to say, Vortex has no requirements that don't ship with an out-of-the-box Windows 10. So the VC runtime for example is shipped with Vortex, you don't have to install it separately.

.Net can be uninstalled manually and on Windows 7 it may be outdated but otherwise any supported, up-to-date, Windows should run Vortex.

 

 

With wine .net is really the only thing I can imagine might be missing.

 

 

Thanks for the reply. Would .Net Core work? Of all the version I believe that has the best compatibility with Wine.

[Tannin42]

Afraid not, .net core can't serve as a drop-in replacement for .net framework, it also doesn't have all the features we use - most importantly it doesn't support appdomain sandboxing which is required to install certain fomods (based around c# scripts) without opening up a massive security hole.

[tomtheclone]

Afraid not, .net core can't serve as a drop-in replacement for .net framework, it also doesn't have all the features we use - most importantly it doesn't support appdomain sandboxing which is required to install certain fomods (based around c# scripts) without opening up a massive security hole.

Thanks for the reply, and yeah, security holes are bad.