# Epic account on linux

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/epic-account-on-linux/430604>\
**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [December 2, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/epic-account-on-linux/430604 "2023-12-02T14:14:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/epic-account-on-linux/430604/10 "2023-12-20T09:10:20Z")

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> [@Judy\_Altiera\_Palmer](#):
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> Does anyone know a way to solve this?

Yes.

I just posted a write up for this in [Pop\_OS! & EVE Online](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pop-os-eve-online/433215)

> [@Judy\_Altiera\_Palmer](#):
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> Lutris was the way to go for me. Though thank you for your ideas!

This is very interesting. I wonder if the EPIC launcher knows how to open the WINE containers concurrently or if it uses a different approach. Because WINE runs in a sandbox, the challenge is to run two copies ( one wiithout the eveonline:// uri, one with ) in the same WINE sandbox ( well ‘prefix’ ) so they ‘talk’ to each other.

> [@Shalmon\_Aliatus](#):
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> I am not sure what you mean by “when I click the epic icon”, but Firefox is not involved in launching the game at all.

I cover that in my post. If you are a windows user, you will see there is a an association in your browser between eveonline:// and the launcher/eve client, so technically firefox is involved.

> [@Judy\_Altiera\_Palmer](#):
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> When I click the epic logo in the game launcher to log in, chrome opens the login site and there’s even the pop up “[login.eveonlone.com](http://login.eveonlone.com) wants to open thw application xdg-open” but when i click allow, nothing happens again… i guess that’s some windows only thingy (I’m really not kind of a linux pro…)

Does not matter which browser, its all about getting that eveonline:// uri into the launcher via what would be a parameter

> [@John\_Rochard](#):
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> John Rochard was a Steam account but has been converted by visiting the Eve Online homepage and changing the account from there.

True, but you should not have to do this, as it means there are now two usernames and passwords that can be used to get into your account instead of one.

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