Installation

For Steam deck users: Refer to the Flatpak section.

Any distribution (Flatpak)

First you will have to open up a terminal and add the Flathub repository.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

The next step would be to add the launcher repository as well. Note: If you want to apply these changes outside of just your current user, remove the --user flag.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --user launcher.moe https://gol.launcher.moe/gol.launcher.moe.flatpakrepo

Then you would need to install the gnome platform:

flatpak install org.gnome.Platform//45

Lastly, you can install the launcher by running the following:

flatpak install launcher.moe moe.launcher.the-honkers-railway-launcher

Flatpak has additional configuration options which you can view here

Arch Linux (AUR)

Using an AUR helper

You can install the launcher like any other AUR package using yay or other preferred AUR helpers.

yay -S the-honkers-railway-launcher-bin

Without an AUR helper

First you will have to clone the repository.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/the-honkers-railway-launcher-bin.git

Then move in to the repository directory.

cd the-honkers-railway-launcher-bin

And build the package.

makepkg -si

Note: Any missing dependencies not included in the base Arch repositories using this method will have to be fetched and install from the AUR manually.

openSUSE Tumbleweed (RPM)

First you will need to add the launcher repository by running the following.

sudo zypper ar -f https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Maroxy:/AAT-Apps/openSUSE_Tumbleweed aatrepo

Or for slowroll:

sudo zypper ar -f https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Maroxy:/AAT-Apps/openSUSE_Slowroll aatrepo

Then you can install the launcher with the following command:

sudo zypper install the-honkers-railway-launcher

Gentoo Linux (Ebuild)

Make sure that app-eselect/eselect-repository and dev-vcs/git is installed. After that add the launcher's overlay.

eselect repository add the-anime-team git https://github.com/an-anime-team/gentoo-ebuilds.git

And sync the repository.

emaint sync -r the-anime-team

Finally, emerge the launcher by running:

emerge --ask games-misc/the-honkers-railway-launcher

NixOS (nixpkg)

Cachix

It is recommended that you set up Cachix before the installation as not have to compile the launcher yourself. You can do so by running

nix-shell -p cachix --run "cachix use ezkea"

Or alternatively in a declarative way by appending the following to your configuration.nix

{
  nix.settings = {
    substituters = [ "https://ezkea.cachix.org" ];
    trusted-public-keys = [ "ezkea.cachix.org-1:ioBmUbJTZIKsHmWWXPe1FSFbeVe+afhfgqgTSNd34eI=" ];
  };
}

Installation

Add the following to your configuration.nix.

let
  aagl-gtk-on-nix = import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/ezKEa/aagl-gtk-on-nix/archive/main.tar.gz");
in
{
  imports = [
    aagl-gtk-on-nix.module
  ];

  programs.the-honkers-railway-launcher.enable = true;
}

Then install the launcher by running:

nixos-rebuild switch 

Alternatively, you can install the launcher using home-manager by adding the following to your home.nix.

let
  aagl-gtk-on-nix = import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/ezKEa/aagl-gtk-on-nix/archive/main.tar.gz");
in
{
  home.packages = [ aagl-gtk-on-nix.the-honkers-railway-launcher ];
}

For installation through the nix package manager on other distributions refer to the instructions in this repository.

Lutris

First you will need to install Lutris if not already installed simply follow the instructions on lutris.net

Then you can install the launcher by clicking here and then click install on HRL Version.

Any distribution (Executable)

Grab the latest binary from the Release page. Then set execution permissions for the binary.

chmod +x honkers-railway-launcher

And run the launcher with the following:

./honkers-railway-launcher

You will have to install any missing dependencies yourself.