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  • This is a general guide for installing the official Old School RuneScape client on Linux operating systems
  • This guide will not cater to every set-up possible, but hopefully will help as a base for adaptation to other set-ups
  • This guide currently expects BASH and a desktop environment compliant with the XDG Desktop Entry specification
  • These notes are currently taken and adapted from a personal wiki page[1], in hopes of it being useful to others, and without warranty or guarantee, so use at your own risk
Mac
  • 2Dependencies
    • 2.1Information
    • 2.2Specific-distributions
  • 3Installation
    • 3.4Install JAR File
      • 3.4.2macOS Client Method
        • 3.4.2.2Extract Files
      • 3.4.3JAR Method
  • 4Desktop Launcher
    • 4.2Desktop Launcher
      • 4.2.2Desktop Launcher Contents
  • 5Quick Commands

Snap Package[edit | edit source]

On systems that support Snaps (such as Ubuntu), you can install an unofficial Snap of Old School RuneScape from Snapcraft:

  • Source code, more information, and issues directly related to the packaging of this Snap should be directed towards the GitHub page
  • This Snap is provided as-is, and is not provided by Jagex
  • If Snap is not installed on your system, you can find installation instructions for various distributions here
  • If you do not wish to use the Snap package, or wish to run Old School RuneScape with Java directly, skip this and continue with the instructions below instead

Dependencies[edit | edit source]

Information[edit | edit source]

Java[edit | edit source]

  • Old School RuneScape currently requires a Java runtime to execute
  • The two most popular options are OpenJDK, and Oracle's version of Java
  • Most distributions will have a version of OpenJDK in their default repositories
  • Some distributions may come with a version of OpenJDK installed, but it is important to make sure a non-headless version is installed
  • If your distribution offers JRE and JDK versions of OpenJDK, JRE is preferred, but if it isn't provided explicitly, JDK will also work fine
  • Use your distribution's package manager to install a version of OpenJDK
  • OpenJDK versions 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 were tested and confirmed working
Downloads

7z[edit | edit source]

  • 7z is being used in order to extract the necessary files from the .dmg installer provided by Jagex
  • The .dmg installer is being used in order to workaround a minor issue with the copyright footer not disappearing upon successful log-in
  • This package is not a hard requirement

wmctrl[edit | edit source]

  • wmctrl can be used to change the state of the Old School RuneScape window, allowing for a toggle between windowed and fullscreen states
  • This package is optional

Other packages[edit | edit source]

  • notify-send is used in the Desktop Launcher to send notifications when manually updating the client, and is optional
  • wget is used to download files, and while useful to have, can be substituted for aria2, or any other preferred command-line download tool. It's not included in all distributions (ie. Arch)

Specific-distributions[edit | edit source]

Ubuntu and Debian[edit | edit source]

Fedora[edit | edit source]

openSUSE[edit | edit source]

Arch Linux[edit | edit source]

Set Default Java[edit | edit source]

  • This allows you to set and/or confirm the default Java executable being used system-wide
  • Some distros automatically set the non-headless version of Java as-default upon installing the package

Installation[edit | edit source]

Information[edit | edit source]

  • The following commands install Old School RuneScape to ~/runescape/oldschool

Clean-up[edit | edit source]

  • This is ran to potentially clean-up an older attempt to install Old School RuneScape
  • If this is a first-time installation, this command does not need to be ran, but it also won't hurt anything if it's ran at this point during the installation either

Create Directories[edit | edit source]

  • This creates the main ~/runescape/oldschool directory, along with a temporary /tmp/oldschool folder to download and extract the initial installation files

Install JAR File[edit | edit source]

Information[edit | edit source]

  • There are two methods to proceed
  • The first method includes extracting jagexappletviewer.jar from the macOS client OldSchool.dmg file, allowing the best desktop integration across all operating systems, and the hiding of the copyright-footer regardless of Java version
  • The second method includes downloading jagexappletviewer.jar as-is and potentially having the copyright footer being shown at all times
  • The first method requires 7z as an extra dependency
  • The second method has no additional dependencies

macOS Client Method[edit | edit source]

  • This is the first method involving the macOS installer
  • Either continue on with this method, or go further down the page if you wish to go with the second method involving the direct JAR file
Download Image[edit | edit source]
  • This downloads OldSchool.dmg to the /tmp/oldschool directory
Extract Files[edit | edit source]
OldSchool.dmg[edit | edit source]
  • This extracts the files from OldSchool.dmg into the /tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg folder
Install JAR[edit | edit source]
  • This copies jagexappletviewer.jar from the /tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg folder into the ~/runescape/oldschool folder
Install Icon[edit | edit source]
  • This copies OSRS.icns from the /tmp/oldschool/OldSchool-dmg folder into the ~/runescape/oldschool folder
Clean-up[edit | edit source]
  • Removes the temporary /tmp/oldschool folder

JAR Method[edit | edit source]

  • This is the second method involving the direct JAR file
  • Either continue on with this method, or return back up the page if you wish to go with the first method involving the macOS client
Download and Install JAR[edit | edit source]
  • This downloads jagexappletviewer.jar to the ~/runescape/oldschool directory
Install Icon[edit | edit source]
  • This downloads a 512x512 icon into the ~/runescape/oldschool folder
  • This icon currently comes from the Old School RuneScape Mobile page on Google Play Store
  • The icon can be substituted for another image, but must be named jagexappletviewer.png

One-liner[edit | edit source]

  • Performs the macOS client download, extraction of jagexappletviewer.jar and OSRS.icns, and clean-up of temporary files
  • Provided for convenience

Desktop Launcher[edit | edit source]

Create Launcher Directory[edit | edit source]

  • This creates the ~/.local/share/applications folder if it doesn't exist

Desktop Launcher[edit | edit source]

Edit Launcher File[edit | edit source]

  • This opens a text editor to edit the Old School RuneScape.desktop file that will be created upon saving
  • nano can be replaced with your preferred text editor

Desktop Launcher Contents[edit | edit source]

Information[edit | edit source]
  • Read this section carefully
  • You can edit some of the text contents below, but otherwise, you can copy and paste it as-is if you're happy with the defaults and meet all file requirements mentioned
  • Do not change any text labelled CHANGEME, as this is handled later with another command
  • The following desktop launcher contents expects the following:
  • Expects /usr/bin/java to link to your default, non-headless Java runtime executable
  • Expects /usr/bin/wmctrl to exist to allow toggling windowed and fullscreen states
  • Expects /bin/bash to exist for running a series of commands to perform maintenance of the client
  • Expects cp, rm, 7z, notify-send, and sync to exist in PATH with BASH
  • This also assumes your Linux distribution uses ideal, default Java flags for memory allocation and garbage collection
  • Hardware-acceleration can be enabled by changing the -Dsun.java2d.opengl flag from false to true[2]
  • UI scaling is possible with the -Dsun.java2d.uiScale flag, and can be set to a value of 2 or higher to increase the UI size
Contents[edit | edit source]
Set Launcher's User[edit | edit source]
  • This changes all instances of CHANGEME in Old School RuneScape.desktop with sed to the user account being used to run the command

Troubleshooting[edit | edit source]

  • If the launcher doesn't appear in your app launcher immediately, try reloading your shell, logging out and then back in, or rebooting the system
  • If the launcher still doesn't appear, one or more executable files may be missing, or there is a syntax error
  • If one or more audio channels in-game are not working (missing music or in-game sound effects), try using an older version of Java

Quick Commands[edit | edit source]

Information[edit | edit source]

  • Various commands for trying out different combination of command flags and diagnostics
  • Assumes Old School RuneScape is installed with the above set-up

Main Folder[edit | edit source]

  • Opens the main game folder with your default file explorer
  • If gio open doesn't work, xdg-open may work

Execute[edit | edit source]

  • Base execution command with minimal Java flags

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Additional Java Flags[edit | edit source]

  • All of these flags can have different settings

Default Java Flags[edit | edit source]

  • This command will show the Java flags set by-default

Other Java Flags[edit | edit source]

  • May be useful for fixing errors related to Java
  1. ↑RoE | Wiki
  2. ↑This is known to potentially have rendering issues with Intel graphics
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Enabling RuneScape Access in Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7

Mac users with OS version 10.6 or 10.7 may find that they have difficulty accessing RuneScape through their web browsers. This is caused by an anti-malware update recently deployed by Apple, which causes the Java plug-in for browsers to be disabled by default.

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This may cause you to receive a “disabled plug-in” message when attempting to load RuneScape. If this happens, simply click on the message, and – when prompted - confirm that you would like to enable the plug-in. Then, restart your browser, and RuneScape should load as usual.

Apple’s update can cause the plug-in to be disabled again automatically, if the applet is not loaded for some time. Should this happen, simply repeat the process described above to re-enable the plug-in and access RuneScape.

If you have any questions, or are still having difficulty, feel free to visit our technical forums where our Customer Support team will be happy to help..

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