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Installing QueueExplorer with Bottles using Flatpak
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Installing QueueExplorer using Flatpak

Installing QueueExplorer on Linux can be a pain. I've found the official guide inadequate as it assumes you're using the apt package manager to install Wine and so on. It's just a bad install script.

Instead, let's install using a universal approach with Flatpak and Bottles. This guide assumes you already have Flatpak installed on your system.

  1. Install Bottles using flatpak
flatpak install com.usebottles.bottles

  1. Run Bottles and initial setup

  2. Create a bottle and name it something like QueueExplorer

  3. In your QueueExplorer bottle details under the Options section, click Dependencies

  4. Download and install the dotnet462 dependency. This will take some time as all the older versions also need to install. You will be prompted occasionally with installation wizards. Go through them normally. Sometimes the entire UI can lock up. I find that navigating with the keyboard using tab, arrow keys and escape can sometimes unlock it depending on your window manager. I don't know why.

  5. Now, go ahead and download the latest v4 EXE installer from Cogin. V5 has a LOT of problems with some updated UI libraries it seems, so I highly recommend sticking to v4 for the time being: https://www.cogin.com/download/mq/download.php?file=QueueExplorer4.5.52.exe

  6. Once downloaded, Click Run Executable... and pick the downloaded QueueExplorer installer EXE. Run through the installation process.

  7. Now we need to allow Bottles to access the desktop entries folder on your host system. Since Flatpak sandboxes the Bottles environment it otherwise can't interact with the outside world. You can also use Flatseal for this, but the quick way is with the terminal. Close Bottles and then run:

flatpak override com.usebottles.bottles --user --filesystem=xdg-data/applications

Then re-open Bottles.

  1. A list of programs should appear in your QueueExplorer bottle details. Click the ... on the right of the QueueExplorer program and pick Add Desktop Entry. This will ensure most distributions can find the program via the application launcher.

  2. Run QueueExplorer either through your distro's launcher or via the "Programs" list in your bottle details page - it should now function as normal!

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