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Paradox Launcher for native Linux games from GOG

MacDhughaill edited this page May 7, 2025 · 2 revisions

The Paradox Launcher will fail to launch with the following error for native Linux versions of Paradox Interactive games from GOG if Heroic is running in a flatpak:

Could not locate a valid installation of the Paradox Launcher:
open /home/$USER/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/data/Paradox Interactive/launcherpath: no such file or directory

To resolve, a simple symlink can be created with the following command:

ln -s /home/$USER/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/.local/share/Paradox\ Interactive /home/$USER/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/data/Paradox\ Interactive

This only needs to be done once, even if you have multiple games with the Paradox Launcher experiencing this problem.

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