Star Citizen on Linux - Quick Start Guide

Prerequisites

1. Install Wine v9.4 or newer from your distro's repos. If wine is not available from your distro's repos, you may follow the instructions on the winehq website.

2. Install winetricks 20250102 or newer from your distro's repos. Links, if needed, are on the winetricks github

3. Select an install location where you have space for the entire game, approximately 130GB

   • Must be a linux-formatted SSD

   • We do not recommend an HDD or NTFS format

Installation Steps

If using an immutable distro (ie. Bazzite, Silverblue), we recommend the flatpak installation.

1. Download the LUG Helper (Select the .tar.gz. Distro packages are listed here)

2. Launch the LUG Helper and select Install Star Citizen

3. Allow the Preflight Check to fix any issues it finds before proceeding!

4. You may instruct the Helper to install the Wine prefix (this contains the game) to any linux-formatted partition.

5. After the install completes, run the RSI Launcher, log in, and click Install to finish installing the game. Do not change the default install location C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries!

6. Launch the game. See you in the 'verse!

Full article and thanks to Starcitizen-lug here.