# Questions about Heroic Games Launcher

**URL:** <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251>\
**Category:** Gaming, sound and video\
**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251 "2024-03-29T19:20:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![nicknick](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/nicknick/32/78702_2.png) [@nicknick](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/nicknick)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251/1 "2024-03-29T19:20:40Z")

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Hi friends.

I’ve tried Steam, Bottles, and Lutris, and now I’d like to try Heroic Games Launcher, but I have a couple of questions.

I didn’t find the package in the Arch repository, but I know that Aur packages are safe if they are famous and have a high score. But to make sure, this is the package I should download for my EOS KDE, right?

[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/heroic-games-launcher-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/heroic-games-launcher-bin)

![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/e/3e0bd7ea98f194415a9c9de85b6a21f04afe96d3.png)

Also, I would like to know if Heroic can filter DLLs and commands like Steam or Lutris, for example this one:

`WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp.dll=n,b" %command%`

For now these are the only doubts I have, since it doesn’t seem to be more difficult to use than Bottles or Lutris.

Thanks in advance for your help friends!

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**Author:** ![dalto](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dalto/32/5577_2.png) [@dalto](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dalto)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251/2 "2024-03-29T19:40:38Z")

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> [@nicknick](#):
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> I know that Aur packages are safe if they are famous and have a high score.

Err…no. You know packages AUR are safe because you review the PKGBUILD and other package files.

In this case, it is very simple.

```t
# Maintainer: flaviofearn <flavioislima@gmail.com>

pkgname=heroic-games-launcher-bin
pkgver=2.13.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An Open source Launcher for Epic, Amazon and GOG Games"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/"
license=('GPL3')
_filename=heroic-2.13.0.pacman
source=("https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher//releases/download/v2.13.0/heroic-2.13.0.pacman")
noextract=("heroic-2.13.0.pacman")
sha256sums=(2c1331c415e280916687fc02a68dc751efb2c1f00aa2d386f464e668d4a3502d)
options=(!strip)
provides=(heroic-games-launcher)
conflicts=(heroic-games-launcher)

package() {
  tar -xJv -C "$pkgdir" -f "$srcdir/$_filename" usr opt
  mkdir "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
  ln -s "/opt/Heroic/heroic" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/heroic"
}

```

This is a very simple one.

The `source` line tells you where the file comes from:

```auto
source=("https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher//releases/download/v2.13.0/heroic-2.13.0.pacman")

```

In this case, they come from the github site for the HGL.

The `package` function in this case the only actual code:

```t
package() {
  tar -xJv -C "$pkgdir" -f "$srcdir/$_filename" usr opt
  mkdir "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
  ln -s "/opt/Heroic/heroic" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/heroic"
}

```

It just unpacks the data and creates a symbolic link.

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**Author:** ![proficiency](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/proficiency/32/94343_2.png) [@proficiency](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/proficiency)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251/3 "2024-04-03T05:02:40Z")

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According to the creator you should download the -bin version: [https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher](https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher)

The other recommended way to download it is to use Flatpak.

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**Author:** ![nicknick](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/nicknick/32/78702_2.png) [@nicknick](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/nicknick)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251/4 "2024-04-03T18:22:36Z")

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Thank you very much for the explanation, it will be really useful to me!

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**Author:** ![nicknick](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/nicknick/32/78702_2.png) [@nicknick](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/nicknick)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251/5 "2024-04-03T18:23:17Z")

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Thanks, I downloaded that one!

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9ea52f9fd5ef8e609e593c362d61a36295f48be8.png) [@system](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/questions-about-heroic-games-launcher/53251/6 "2024-04-05T18:23:57Z")

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