Unofficial Blizzard BattleNet Flatpak

Installing

• Download BattleNet.flatpak from releases
• Install BattleNet.flatpak (sudo needed for installing single use Flatpak bundle)

sudo flatpak install BattleNet.flatpak

Launching

• Launch the BattleNet Flatpak (Either search for the app in your menu and click it) or

flatpak run com.blizzard.BattleNet

Uninstalling

• Remove BattleNet Flatpak

flatpak remove com.blizzard.BattleNet

Downloading/Cloning this repo

• Switch the branch to WineStaging, using the dropdown at the top left, then click the green button to download zip and extract once downloaded or clone repo with

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ChrisHobday/com.blizzard.BattleNet

Building

• Install Flatpak builder

flatpak install flathub org.flatpak.Builder

• Install the platform this Flatpak will be using

flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//23.08 org.freedesktop.Sdk//23.08

• Download and install WineStaging Flatpaks from https://github.com/ChrisHobday/org.winehq.WineStaging/releases (This Flatpak uses them as a base)
• Switch to WineStaging branch (If you cloned repo) (Run this from within the com.blizzard.BattleNet directory)

git checkout WineStaging

• Build the Flatpak with flatpak-builder (Run this from within the com.blizzard.BattleNet directory)

flatpak run org.flatpak.Builder --force-clean --repo=repo build-dir com.blizzard.BattleNet.yml

User installation while building

• Replace last Building step with

flatpak run org.flatpak.Builder --force-clean --repo=repo --user --install build-dir com.blizzard.BattleNet.yml

Building single use Flatpak bundle like in the releases (After having followed the Building steps above)

• Build the Flatpak bundle (Run this from within the com.blizzard.BattleNet directory after having followed the Building steps above)

flatpak build-bundle repo BattleNet.flatpak com.blizzard.BattleNet

Troubleshooting

• Check if Flatpak is installed

flatpak list | grep BattleNet

• Enter Flatpak in command line mode

flatpak run --command=sh com.blizzard.BattleNet

Flatpak locations

• Installation directory = /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.blizzard.BattleNet/
• Installation directory (User mode) = ~/.local/share/flatpak/app/com.blizzard.BattleNet/
• User cache directory = ~/.var/app/com.blizzard.BattleNet/cache/
• User config directory = ~/.var/app/com.blizzard.BattleNet/config/
• User data directory = ~/.var/app/com.blizzard.BattleNet/data/
• Wine prefix = ~/.var/app/com.blizzard.BattleNet/data/WinePrefix