How to play Ghost Recon Wildlands on Linux
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is a third-person tactical shooter developed and published by Ubisoft. This guide will show you how to download, install and play the game on Linux.
Getting Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands working on Linux
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is a Windows game and not native to Linux. However, it will run on Linux thanks to new Easy Anti-Cheat support. However, you’ll need to install Steam to get it working.
To set up Steam on Linux, you must open up a terminal window on the desktop. Press Ctrl + Alt + T on the key on the keyboard. Alternatively, launch a terminal window on the desktop by searching for “Terminal” on the desktop.
With the terminal window open and ready to use, follow the installation instructions below to install the Steam app on your Linux computer.
Ubuntu
To install the Steam app on Ubuntu, use the following apt install command below.
sudo apt install steam
Debian
On Debian, you must download the Steam DEB package to your computer before installing it. To download the Steam DEB package, run the following wget command below.
wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steam.deb
After downloading the latest Steam DEB package to your Debian PC, you can install it using the dpkg command below.
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb
With the package installed, you must run the apt-get install -f command to correct any dependency issues during the Steam DEB package installation.
sudo apt-get install -f
Arch Linux
On Arch Linux, you can install Steam. However, you’ll first need to enable the “multilib” software repository. Open up the /etc/pacman.conf file in a text editor (as root), find “#multilib,” and remove the # symbol. Also, remove the # symbol from the line directly below.
After editing, save your edits and run the following pacman -Syy command.
sudo pacman -Syy
Finally, install the official Steam app using pacman -S.
sudo pacman -S steam
Fedora/OpenSUSE
On both Fedora Linux and OpenSUSE, Steam is installable through software repositories included with the operating system. However, consider following the Flatpak instructions as that app version tends to work better on these OSes.
Flatpak
To install Steam as a Flatpak on Linux, start by enabling the Flatpak runtime on your system. Then, after setting up the runtime, enter the two commands below to set up Steam.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
After installing the Steam app, open up the app and log into your account. Then, follow the step-by-step instructions below to get Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands working on your Linux system.
Step 1: Open the Steam menu and select the “Settings” button to open up the Steam settings area. Once in the Steam menu, find the “Steam Play” section, and click on it with the mouse.
Upon selecting the “Steam Play” area, select both the “Enable Steam Play for supported titles” box and the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles” box. Finally, click on the “OK” button to save the settings in Steam.
Step 2: Locate the “Store” button inside the Steam app, and select it with the mouse to access the Steam store. Once on the Steam store, click the search box, and type in “Ghost Recon Wildlands.” Next, press the Enter key to view the search results.
Step 3: Look through the game search results for “Ghost Recon Wildlands.” When you’ve found the game, click on it to load up the Ghost Recon Wildlands Steam game page.
Once on the Steam page for Wildlands, locate the green “Add to cart” button. Select the button to add the game to your Steam cart. Once the game is in your Steam cart, click on the cart icon and purchase the game for your account.
Step 4: Select the “Library” button with Ghost Recon Wildlands purchased. Selecting the “Library” button will load up the Steam library. Look through the game library for Ghost Recon Wildlands.
When you’ve located Wildlands, right-click on it in the sidebar. Then, select the “Properties” option in the right-click menu.
Step 5: Inside the Right-click menu, find the “Compatibility” tab. Check the “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” button. Then, set it so that Ghost Recon Wildlands” uses “Proton Experimental.” When done, close the window.
Step 6: After changing the version of Proton for Wildlands, find the blue “INSTALL” button for Ghost Recon Wildlands, and select it with the mouse. Selecting this button will start up the download and installation process. This process will take some time to complete.
Step 7: Ghost Recon Wildlands will be installed when the installation process is complete in Steam. Select the green “PLAY” button to start up the game.
It launches, but appears not to detect the keyboard.