Aemulus Script Installer for Linux

This is also covered in Persona 3 FES Modding Guide: Installing Aemulus on Linux.
Important note: Aemulus does not run under WINE version 6 or earlier. Current stable is 9.0, LTS distros ship 8.0 still. Please make sure you're running WINE ≥ 8.0 !

Dependencies

Arch and Steam Deck

curl
wine
winetricks
p7zip
unzip
desktop-file-utils
lib32-gnutls
lib32-gst-plugins-base

If you're on steamdeck you need to disable immutable fs temporarily!

sudo steamos-readonly disable

Install your dependencies with the following

sudo pacman -S curl wine winetricks p7zip unzip desktop-file-utils lib32-gnutls lib32-gst-plugins-base

If wine is "missing" from the repositories, open /etc/pacman.conf in your favorite editor and uncomment the two multilib (not multililb testing lines!) close to the endo f the file.

Once done on steamdeck, re-enable immutable fs.

sudo steamos-readonly enable

Debian and similar

curl
wine
winetricks
p7zip
unzip
desktop-file-utils
gnutls

Install

sudo apt install curl wine winetricks p7zip unzip desktop-file-utils gnutls

Fedora

curl
wine
winetricks
p7zip
unzip
desktop-file-utils
gnutls
gnutls.i686

Install

sudo dnf install curl wine winetricks p7zip unzip desktop-file-utils gnutls gnutls.i686

Make sure you have these installed before trying to run the script otherwise you will run into issues.

Installation

Make sure you have git installed if you want it super easy!

git clone https://github.com/alexankitty/aemulus-installer-linux
cd aemulus-installer-linux
chmod +x ./AemulusSetup.sh
./AemulusSetup.sh

If wine mono pops up, you can either click install or cancel. It doesn't matter, the script will ensure it's removed later.

Game specific instructions

Persona 5 Royal (Switch)

For some unknown reason, Aemulus tries to pass a null file reference to the lib responsible for unpacking the CPKs for this game. You will need to unpack them by hand by downloading and extracting CriFsV2Lib, and then running it under your wine Aemulus prefix with the following command:

cd ~/Path/To/CriFsLib.GUI
WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/aemulus wine CriFsLib.GUI.exe

Followed by copying the extracted results to ~/.local/share/aemulus/drive_c/AemulusPackageManager/Original/Persona 5 Royal (Switch)

Issues

Put in an issue in the repo with the output of the script and as much information as possible.

Updating

If for some reason the URLs become out of date that the script uses for grabbing everything, you can change the download path variables under #Download Paths

Uninstalling

rm -rf ~/.local/share/aemulus