A libre replacement for Steam
In the modern period, the term "Athenaeum" is widely used in various countries for schools, libraries, museums, cultural centers, performance halls and theaters, periodicals, clubs and societies - all aspiring to fulfill a cultural function similar to that of the ancient Roman school.
Matrix Channel: #athenaeum:matrix.org
- Installing Games
- Running Games
- Uninstalling Games
- Updates (Only monolithic atm, individual to come)
Get it from Flathub!
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.gitlab.librebob.Athenaeum
Download just the PKGBUILD and use it to build the package. Once built install it with pacman.
Or get it from the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/athenaeum-git/
Clone this repo.
Working list, in general you need python3, flatpak and pyqt5.
Ubuntu 18.04
flatpak
python3-pyqt5
python3-pyqt5.qtquick
python3-dateutil
python3-numpy
qml-module-qtquick2
qml-module-qtquick-layouts
qml-module-qtquick-controls2
qml-module-qtquick-window2
qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects
Arch
flatpak
python-dateutil
python-pyqt5
python-numpy
qt5-svg
qt5-quickcontrols2
qt5-graphicaleffects
Fedora 29 (Comes with a lot of the dependencies by default)
python3-pip
pip3 install pyqt5
python3-dateutil
python3-numpy
Arch
python athenaeum.py
Ubuntu / Fedora
python3 athenaeum.py
Ubuntu / Fedora
$ cd test
$ python3 -m unittest
Arch
$ cd test
$ python -m unittest
Athenaeum uses flatpak as its packaging system and pulls all data from flathub currently.
The best way to get your game on Athenaeum is to create a flatpak config and submit it to the flathub github repository.
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission
Make sure your game appdata.xml contains the project_license field with a Free Software license and the categories field, with at least the category 'Game'.
- Python3
- PyQt5
- Qt5
- Python-Appstream
- LibreICONS
As you would any other project.
The kind people of weblate.org have provided Athenaeum with hosting for translations. Using their webapp makes translating a lot easier!
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/athenaeum/translations/
On Fedora you'll require the qt5-devel package for this.
Athenaeum leverages the QT translation classes and tools. To get started simply add a translation file to athenaeum.pro eg. athenaeum/translations/athenaeum_ja.ts then run lupdate -verbose athenaeum.pro to generate the file.
After that use linguist to edit the file adding your translations. Once there's some translations lrelease -verbose athenaeum.pro will be used to generate the files that will be loaded at runtime.
The QT website explains this all better and in more detail.
https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-5.11/qtlinguist-hellotr-example.html
Find libre games, create flatpak manifests for them and submit them to flathub.
A good place to start finding games is LibreGameWiki.
https://libregamewiki.org/List_of_games
GPLv3 or later (GPLv3+), any other code as licensed (python-appstream is LGPLv2+).
Assets as licensed (LibreICONS is MIT).