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Install Civ 5 Enhanced UI Mod on Linux
#!/usr/bin/env python2
# NOTE: Use of this script is deprecated, instead I recommend you use
#
# $ unzip -LL eui_v1_20.zip -d "$HOME/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization V/steamassets/assets/dlc"
#
# to make use of the unzip command's built-in conversion to lowercase filenames
# (thanks reddit user /u/xkero and github user Mfdas)
import os
import shutil
import sys
import tempfile
import zipfile
# Verify this is the right path on your system
DLC_DIR = '~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier\'s Civilization V/steamassets/assets/dlc'
EUI_DIR = 'UI_bc1'
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Quick and dirty argument parsing
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print 'Usage: %s [ZIPFILE]' % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(-1)
eui_zipfile = sys.argv[1]
try:
tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
with zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[1], 'r') as zf:
zf.extractall(tempdir)
srcdir = os.path.join(tempdir, EUI_DIR)
dstdir = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser(DLC_DIR), EUI_DIR.lower())
shutil.copytree(srcdir, dstdir)
os.chdir(dstdir)
for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.', topdown=False):
for filename in dirnames + filenames:
orig = os.path.join(root, filename)
new = orig.lower()
try:
os.renames(orig, new)
except:
pass
finally:
if tempdir:
shutil.rmtree(tempdir)
@DFOXpro
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DFOXpro commented Sep 13, 2014

How can i use this script?, i recently bought the game and execute the script with parameter the euizip but does not work, this need some permission or some extra package or work?

@Althorion
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You may want to change shebang to use specifically Python 2, since in some distributions (namely Arch Linux), default Python is 3.

@Erikvv
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Erikvv commented May 9, 2015

On Arch Linux:

DLC_DIR = '~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization V/steamassets/assets/dlc'

@Rukur
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Rukur commented Jul 25, 2015

On Ubuntu 15.04
DLC_DIR = '~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization V/steamassets/assets/dlc'

@AlleahSTAR
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How to use:

  1. First, make sure the script is set to be executable and that the path to the DLC directory is correct (other comments will help)
  2. Put the EUI zip with the py script in the same folder for ease.
  3. Open a terminal at the location of the two files.
  4. Drag the py file into the terminal; it will put the path to the file in the terminal.
  5. Type the full name of the EUI zip (including '.zip') after the space following the path to the py file.
  6. Hit Enter.
  7. Confirm your Steam Civ 5 DLC folder has a folder called ui_bc1
  8. Done!

Example terminal code:

If you put the files on your desktop, the text in the terminal should look something like

/home/username/Desktop/eui_install.py eui_v1_27c.zip

@chrys-the-flower
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but a much easier way to do this would just unzip the original EUI zip using 'unzip -LL eui_zip.zip' which automatically forces conversion of every directory and filename to lowercase.

@mjkoo
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mjkoo commented Mar 4, 2016

Thanks for the comment Mfdas, noted in comments. Definitely a better way to do it, this was discussed in the reddit thread as well.

@rpdelaney
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This also seems to work (after extracting):

convmv --lower -r -f UTF-8 --notest UI_bc1

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