Install Your Non Steam/DRM Free Humble Bundle Games Using The AUR on Arch Linux (and arch based distros)

A lot of us buy Humble Bundles, leaving us with tons of games, some of which are not available for Steam For Linux and are only DRM-free which is till awesome. However many of these non Steam games can be installed easily using the AUR. Below I will list some examples and how to install them.


Lets start with Bit.Trip runner

yaourt bit trip

select the package called bittriprunner, was option 2 for me, begin the install, while downloading the tar.gz from Humble Bundle. The install will fail but don't worry this is meant to happen don't restart or anything just yet. First we need to open the following directory /tmp/yaourt-tmp-YOURUSERNAME/aur-bittriprunner/ and paste our tar.gz in there, say yes to all if you get any prompts. We can now restart our yaourt install and just like that the game is installed :D You will find it under games in your menu.


Ok next up we will try Vessel, note you will notice its a similar process for most games but I am trying a few random examples to show the process.

yaourt vessel

There will most likely be only one choice select that and begin the install while downloading Vesel from the Humble Bundle site. The install will fail but don't worry this is meant to happen don't restart or anything just yet. First we need to open the following directory /tmp/yaourt-tmp-YOURUSERNAME/aur-vessel/ and paste our .bin in there, say yes to all if you get any prompts. We can now restart our yaourt install and just like that the game is installed :D You will find it under games in your menu. See using the same simple process, lets try one more :D

Ok the last game we will try will be Dear Esther

yaourt dear esther 

This game uses the same process as the other 2 so just download the .bin file from Humble Bundle and follow the steps above.

Enjoy any game you want install guides on let me know, take care! :D