Rare

A frontend for legendary, the open source Epic Games Launcher alternative

Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, based on PyQt5

Logo by @MultisampledNight available here, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Installation

Installation via pip (recommend)

Execute pip install Rare for all users, or pip install Rare --user for the current user only.

Linux and Mac: execute rare in your terminal.

Windows: execute pythonw -m rare in cmd

It is possible to create a desktop link, or a start menu link. Execute the command above with --desktop-shortcut or --startmenu-shortcut option, alternatively you can create them in the settings.

Note about $PATH:

On Linux:

/home/user/.local/bin must be in your PATH.

On Windows:

PythonInstallationDirectory\Scripts must be in your PATH.

On Mac:

/Users/user/Library/Python/3.x/bin must be in your PATH.

Linux

Arch based

There are some AUR packages available:

• rare - for stable releases
• rare-git - for the latest features, which are not in a stable release

Debian based

• DUR package: rare
• .deb file in releases page

Note:

• pypresence is an optional package. You can install it from DUR or with pip.
• Do not wonder if some icons look strange, because the official python3-qtawesome package is too old. Many icons were replaced.

Other

Install via pip or use the AppImage.

macOS

There is a .dmg file available in releases page.

Note: When you launch it, you will see an error, that the package is from an unknown source. You have to enable it manually in Settings -> Security and Privacy. Otherwise, Gatekeeper will block Rare from running.

You can also use pip.

Packages

In releases page, AppImages are available for Linux, a .msi file for windows and a .dmg file for macOS.

Latest packages

In the actions tab you can find packages for the latest commits.

Note: They might be unstable.

Run from source

Note: Cloning with submodules is very important, as Rare uses a custom version of legendary and bundles it as a submodule.

1. Clone the repo with Submodule: git clone https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare --recurse-submodules.
2. Change your working directory to the project folder: cd Rare
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all required dependencies. If you want to be able to use the automatic login, run pip install -r optional_requirements.txt If you are on Arch you can run sudo pacman --needed -S python-wheel python-setuptools python-pyqt5 python-qtawesome python-requests python-psutil
4. Run python3 -m rare

Why Rare?

• Rare only uses ~50MB of RAM which is much less than the electron based HeroicGamesLauncher uses.
• Rare supports most major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac) unlike the alternatives.

Issues

If you run into any issues, please report it by creating an issue on GitHub or on Discord: https://discord.gg/YvmABK9YSk

Contributing

There are several options to contribute.

• If you know Python and PyQt, you can implement new features (Some ideas are in the projects tab).
• If you are a designer, you can add Stylesheets or create a logo or a banner.
• You can translate the application in your language: Check our transifex page for that.

More information is available in CONTRIBUTING.md.

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