{"id":8129,"date":"2018-09-07T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:36:19","slug":"install-league-of-legends-ubuntu-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/install-league-of-legends-ubuntu-snap\/","title":{"rendered":"Install League Of Legends in Ubuntu via Snap for Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8130\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who want to play League of Legends in Ubuntu desktop, the game has been made into <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/leagueoflegends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snap<\/a>, containerised software package designed to work within most Linux desktop.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2025: League Of Legends for Linux is over! See <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/leagueoflinux\/comments\/1abhx9f\/farewell_rleagueoflinux_vanguard_is_coming_to\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this thread<\/a> for details.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The game package is based on wine platform, and it is using the <code>wine-base-staging<\/code> to use the latest changes released from winehq.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-ubuntu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8131\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-ubuntu-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-ubuntu-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-ubuntu-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-ubuntu-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lol-ubuntu.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The snap so far is available for testing purpose. If you&#8217;re interested in this, do following steps to help testing it in Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 16.04:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from software launcher.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7926\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/launch-terminal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/launch-terminal.jpg 458w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/launch-terminal-450x252.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> When terminal opens, run command to install the wine platform if you don&#8217;t have it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">snap install wine-platform<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8135\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wine-platform-snap-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wine-platform-snap-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wine-platform-snap-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wine-platform-snap.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Then install the Lol snap package via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">snap install leagueoflegends --edge --devmode<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8132\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/snap-install-lol-edge-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/snap-install-lol-edge-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/snap-install-lol-edge-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/snap-install-lol-edge.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>NOTE for Ubuntu 16.04, install snapd via command <code>sudo apt install snapd<\/code> if previous commands do not work.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> Once installed, launch the game from your software launcher.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8133\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/launch-lol-450x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/launch-lol-450x226.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/launch-lol.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On first launch you&#8217;ll be prompted to choose the game installer region and the download process starts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8134\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/downloading-lol-450x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/downloading-lol-450x267.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/downloading-lol.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lol will finally launch if everything goes well. And you can report issues at <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.snapcraft.io\/t\/call-for-testing-leagueoflegends\/7229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapcraft.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove Lol snap package, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">snap remove leagueoflegends<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who want to play League of Legends in Ubuntu desktop, the game has been made into Snap, containerised software package designed to work within most Linux desktop. UPDATE 2025: League Of Legends for Linux is over! See this thread for details. The game package is based on wine platform, and it is using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1575,1574],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-install-lol-in-ubuntu","tag-league-of-legends"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}