How to play Minion Masters on Linux
Minion Masters is a free-to-play tower-defense card game. It was developed and published by BetaDwarf for Mac OS and Windows. Here’s how you can play Minion Masters on your Linux PC.
Getting Minion Masters working on Linux
Minion Masters is a Windows video game and does not have a native Linux port. However, Steam for Linux has Proton, which enables Windows games to be run on Linux.
To use Proton on your Linux PC, install Steam on your Get third-party Ubuntu apps with ease using Deb-getcomputer using the terminal. You can open up a terminal window on the Linux desktop by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T or by searching for “Terminal” in the app menu.
Once the terminal window is open and ready to go, Steam iYou can install the Steam app on your computer by following the installation instructions outlined below that correspond to your Linux OS.
Ubuntu
You can get Steam on Ubuntu by entering the apt install command down below.
sudo apt install steam
Debian
To use Steam on Debian, you’ll first need to download the Steam DEB package to your computer. Using the wget download command below, download the latest release of Steam to your computer.
wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steam.deb
After downloading the Steam DEB package to your computer, use the dpkg command below to install the Steam app to Debian.
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb
With the Steam DEB package set up on your computer, you’ll need to correct the dependency issues using the apt-get install -f command.
sudo apt-get install -f
Arch Linux
To install Steam on Arch Linux, you’ll first need to enable the “multilib” software repository. Open up the /etc/pacman.conf file in a text editor (as root). Then, find the “multilib” line. Remove the # symbol from in front, as well as the line directly below.
Once you’ve finished editing, save your edits and run the following pacman command.
sudo pacman -Syy
Finally, install the Steam app using the pacman -S command.
sudo pacman -S steam
Fedora/OpenSUSE
Both Fedora Linux and OpenSUSE Linux have Steam available in software repositories included with the system. However, we suggest following the Flatpak installation instructions instead, as that version of Steam works better on these OSes.
Flatpak
Before you can install Steam as a Flatpak, you must enable the Flatpak runtime on your computer. To enable the Flatpak runtime on your computer, install the “flatpak” package on your computer.
Note: Can’t figure out how to enable the Flatpak runtime? Follow our in-depth guide on the subject to set it up.
Once the Flatpak runtime is installed and configured, use the two flatpak commands below to install the Steam app on your computer.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
Once the Steam app is installed on your Linux PC, you can open it up with the app menu. After launching it, log into your Steam account using your user credentials. Then, follow the step-by-step instructions below to get Minion Masters working on Linux.
Step 1: Find the “Steam” menu inside of the Steam app, and click on it with the mouse. Then, select the “Settings” button to open up the Steam settings area. Once there, find the “Steam Play” section, and check both the “Enable Steam Play for supported titles” box and the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”.
Step 2: Find the “Store” button inside of the Steam app, and click on it with the mouse. Then, find the search box and type in “Minion Masters.” Press the Enter key to view the search results.
Step 3: Look through the search results. Once you’ve found “Minion Masters,” locate the “Play Game” button, and click on it with the mouse.
Step 4: When you select the “Play Game” button, you’ll see a pop-up window. The pop-up window says “Install – Minion Masters.” Find the “Next” button and click on it to get Minion Masters set up on your Linux PC.
Step 5: After Minion Masters is done downloading, find the “Library” button and select it to access your Steam games library. Then, search through it for “Minion Masters.”
Step 6: Once you’ve located Minion Masters in your Steam Games Library, find the green “PLAY” button. Select it to start up Minion Masters on your Linux PC.
Troubleshooting Minion Masters
Minion Masters has a gold rating on ProtonDB, so the game should work fine out of the box. However, if you have issues with Minion Masters on your Linux PC, be sure to check out the ProtonDB page to fix any problems you may have.
