I am unreal beginner. I installed Unreal Engine 5.6.1 on Ubuntu(24.04) and also installed the fab plugin, but I can’t download the Paperzd plugin from fab. There is only an install from launcher button. What should I do to download the plugin from fab?
Hiya, I’m a linux user too developing in ue5.
My understanding is that the fab plugin has a special dependency on the epic store + Epic online services running in the background.
Options:
Herioc launcher will not work.
use wine/proton/lutris to run the epic store (I have not been able to get it to work)
What actually worked for me:
setup a vm with windows 10
Install games store in launcher
clone your repo
install the assets into your repo
(If you have to omany assets you will have issues checking into git)
To transfer the assets out of your vm
setup ssh keys in your vm
put public ssh key in your main box ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
scp your assets from inside the vm to your linux host
Total PITA
Took me about a day to transfer assets out because:
- vm is super slow unless you pass in a gpu
- epic store will bug out a lot (NPEs out the rear)
From what I have seen epic is not very friendly to linux, maybe even hostile.
There are other stores which will work nice with linux, but the assets are in more open formats instead of in unreal formats and the selections aren’t as nice.
Hope this helped.