Bug#775365: game-data-packager: trick Linux Steam into downloading owned Windows games

[Simon McVittie]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 38
Severity: wishlist

On 14/01/15 16:59, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> While googling on how to read the **/ SteamApps/appmanifest_*.acf files, I found this other pygi GUI:
> 
> https://github.com/dotfloat/steam-appmanifest
> 
> [ This is a short python script that tricks Steam for Linux into downloading non-Linux apps.

That seems like a useful hack once gdp has a GUI: we could do the setup,
then prompt the user to restart Steam, and perhaps even use inotify on
the manifest to detect when the game has arrived, then proceed with
repackaging its data files. Opening this as a feature request.

    S