Management tool for Flashpoint + Distrobox

This is a CLI application meant for using Flashpoint inside of a Distrobox container.

To install:

Make sure Distrobox is installed with command -v distrobox if it's not installed you can install it here.

Do NOT use sudo for any of these commands.

1. Download the flashpoint-manager file in this repository.
2. Make the file executable with chmod +x path/to/flashpoint-manager OR make it executable from your file manager.
3. Move the file to "~/.local/bin/" is this file doesn't exist then run mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/ OR create the file inside your file manager.
4. Open the terminal and run flashpoint-manager --install-flashpoint

Features:

• Auto Installation. (You must provide the Flashpoint .7z file)
• Easier updates. (You must provide the Flashpoint .z7 file)
• Some data preservation between updates. (Still in testing)
• Distrobox container stops after Flashpoint is closed.
• Isolation to "$HOME/.flashpoint" (Except the wrapper and .desktop file)

Warning

• I consider this to be untested beta software so stuff might go wrong.
• This project is NOT associated with the Flashpoint project.

Why this exists?

1. After Flashpoint started using WOW64 for Wine most of the games I play became unplayable.
2. Flashpoint updates on Linux aren't simple if you want to preserve you game data.
3. I disliked the extra files Wine generated inside "~/.local/share/applications"
4. This just feels like a more stable way to use Flashpoint than the official Linux versions approach.

How this works?

For normal people:

1. Install.
2. Open Flashpoint.
3. Profit.

For nerds:

1. A Distrobox container is created with it's own internal $HOME
2. Flashpoints dependencies are installed inside the container.
3. A wrapper is created that starts the container then opens Flashpoint inside of it. This allows for stuff like Wine to work.
4. A .desktop file is created for the wrapper.

The internal home is stored inside of your user home directory "~/.flashpoint" only two files will be outside of this directory (the wrapper and .desktop file) everything else should be contained to the Distrobox internal home.

TODO:

• NVIDIA support. (Need help don't have a NVIDIA GPU)
• Steamdeck support. (Need help don't have a Steamdeck also already might be supported just needs testing.)
• Create backup feature and a restore backup feature.
• Verbose mode.
• Consider using a Fedora 43 containers because it seems to run fine and has Wine 11 so we can make use of NTSYNC. The difference in performance is likely unnoticable but whatever every bit counts.