Path of Building in Docker

Since Path of Exile is gloriously working under Linux systems in these days, some might want to run Path of Building under Linux as well. Path of Building is mainly intended for Windows systems, but it works well under wine. However, the process for making it work, or using regularly might be sometimes laborious. Or one might rather keep their host system clean and easily controllable.

This repository contains Dockerfile and short instructions for using it straightforwardly. It hopefully works in any Linux distribution. Only Docker daemon is required. Currently only Wayland is tested.

Usage

Usage requires Docker image and a set of parameters for running the Docker container. Dockerimage contains all required runtime dependencies. You can download and run the script which does everything (See script contents.):

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nicceboy/pobdocker/main/pob > pob && bash pob

On first time, it will prompt for installation of PoB. For making saved data to be persisted even if the image is removed, named volume is used. Make sure to install the software for its default location.

On second run, the volume is detected and already installed binary is executed, and PoB can be used.

To install the script for making usable everywhere, for example just move it to `/usr/local/bin/ The script was downloaded into current directory with the previous one-liner.

sudo mv pob /usr/local/bin/

Then it can be used by running pob.

Details

By default, PoB and saved data has been installed into the volume named as pathofbuilding.

You can remove the volume with:

docker volume rm pathofbuilding

To remove the image:

docker image rm ghcr.io/nicceboy/pobdocker

Troubleshooting

Wayland users might have problems if UID of the current user is not 1000. Container image should be rebuild to match the UID of the current user to allow using the X11-unix socket for display to work.

Pure X11 display server on host seems to currently work if the host network and TCP is used to share the server. This requires modification of the pob file to include Docker parameter --net=host; however, it might be unwanted if there are concerns about isolation.

Licence

MIT