League of Legends

League of Legends (www.leagueoflegends.com) helper script for installing and running on Linux.

Dependencies

• wine-lol (please see the note below)
• winetricks
• bash
• curl
• lib32-gnutls
• lib32-libldap
• lib32-openal
• lib32-libpulse
• vulkan-icd-loader, lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
• Vulkan drivers for your graphic cards. For example:
  • lib32-vulkan-intel
  • lib32-nvidia-utils
  • lib32-vulkan-radeon
  • lib32-amdvlk

Note

The current version of WINE does not support the game because of some anticheat mechanism. Game crashes while entering the main game after champion selection (bug 47198). To circumvent the issue, some patches are needed for WINE to successfully run the game. Please use wine-lol instead of wine or wine-staging.

Installation

Arch Linux

Install the package from AUR: leagueoflegends-git.

Debian/Ubuntu

You could use make deb to create the .deb package, and then install it with the following command.

sudo dpkg -i <package name>.deb

Note that the generated debian package does not have the dependency information, so please first install the required packages.

Manual installation from source

You can install the helper script manually by:

$ git clone https://github.com/kyechou/leagueoflegends.git
$ cd leagueoflegends
$ sudo make install

The files are installed to /usr by default, or you can optionally set DESTDIR to install the files to $(DESTDIR)/usr.

$ sudo make DESTDIR="..." install

Configuration

The configuration file is removed for simplicity. If you would like to change the default location of wine prefix or other parameters, feel free to modify the script.

Usage

[!] Usage: leagueoflegends <command>

League of Legends - helper program

Commands:
    start               - Start LoL
    install             - Install LoL
    uninstall           - Uninstall LoL
    reinstall           - Reinstall LoL
    cleanup_logs        - Remove log files
    kill                - Kill the wine processes of the wineprefix
    run <shell comamnd> - Run shell command with environment variables
                          (useful for wine utilities)

The usage should be intuitive. You firstly would need leagueoflegends install to construct the wine environment and install the client. Note that while the client is being installed, please do NOT log in or launch the game. After the client is installed successfully, you could use leagueoflegends start to launch the game. It may take a little while before the splash screen shows up, due to this issue.

Advanced wine configuration

leagueoflegends kill would use wineserver --kill to try to kill all the wine processes of the current wine prefix, which might be helpful if some error happens and the script hangs.

leagueoflegends run <...> can be use to run any command with the wine-related environment variables, such as WINEARCH, WINEDLLOVERRIDES, and WINEPREFIX. This way, you could easily run wine utilities like leagueoflegends run winecfg, or leagueoflegends run wineserver --kill, etc.