chapien/openmw

Project ID: 186192

Description

OpenMW is an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind by Bethesda Softworks. This copr repo serves as a way to easily install the developer build of OpenMW. There will almost certainly be instabilities.

The RPM is rebuilt daily by a cron job, so this will not necessarily reflect the latest commit; but it will always be up to date for a given day. Currently, rebuild is scheduled for midnight UTC.

Installation Instructions

This repo holds the DEVELOPMENT BRANCH of openMW. Specifically, it pulls and builds the LATEST COMMIT of openMW. If you want the stable version, it is available directly from Fedora, and can be installed with sudo dnf install openmw.

If you want the development build of openMW, follow these instructions.

IMPORTANT CAVEATS: You cannot have both openmw and openmw-git installed. If you want both, install openmw-git to something like a distrobox. You can use a GUI frontend like distroshelf.

Note that if your distrobox is set up to use the same Home folder as your main install, then configuration files and saves will be shared. This may cause some mods to break. DO NOT try to play development branch save files in the stable release of openMW. It MIGHT be safe to upgrade a save, but not the other way around. ie, openmw -> openmw-git MIGHT be safe, but openmw-git -> openmw is certainly NOT safe.

Install instructions are as follows.

sudo dnf copr enable chapien/openmw
sudo dnf install openmw-git

You can also install the construction set with:

sudo dnf install openmw-git-cs

Auxiliary openMW tools are included in the openmw-tools package. These tools are BSATool, ESMTool, and NIFTest. If you want these tools (which may be useful for testing, developing and debugging openMW), you can install them with:

sudo dnf install openmw-git-tools

You can launch openMW either through the desktop file or through openmw-launcher. Do not launch openmw directly until you have run the launcher at least once, as you will need to provide Morrowind's data files! Please see openMW's official installation guide.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 41	aarch64 (0), x86_64 (554)	Fedora 41 (12 downloads)
Fedora 42	aarch64 (0), x86_64 (612)	Fedora 42 (16 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (0), x86_64 (469)	Fedora rawhide (10 downloads)