| Port details |
- minigalaxy Simple GOG client for Linux
- 1.4.1 games
 =0      1.4.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: Alexander88207@protonmail.com
- Port Added: 2025-09-22 12:36:22
- Last Update: 2026-02-23 13:16:50
- Commit Hash: 5f2638a
- License: GPLv3
- WWW:
- https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy
- Description:
- A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG games.
The most important features of Minigalaxy:
- Log in with your GOG account
- Download the Linux games you own on GOG
- Launch them!
In addition to that, Minigalaxy also allows you to:
- Update your games
- Install and update DLC
- Select which language you'd prefer to download your games in
- Change where games are installed
- Search your GOG Linux library
- Show all games or just the ones you've installed
- View the error message if a game fails to launch
- Enable displaying the FPS in games
- Use the system's ScummVM or DOSBox installation
- Install Windows games using Wine
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - There is no configure plist information for this port.
- USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}minigalaxy>0:games/minigalaxy@${PY_FLAVOR}
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/games/minigalaxy/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install games/minigalaxy
- pkg install py311-minigalaxy
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py311-minigalaxy listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.- PKGNAME: py311-minigalaxy
- Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1771714338
SHA256 (sharkwouter-minigalaxy-1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 05018f96f77cb1a78287abb9ad00fe19b2b70f42c31a5ceca7177bb9cef31c3b
SIZE (sharkwouter-minigalaxy-1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 508033
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- bash : shells/bash
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- py311-setuptools>=63.1.0 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Test dependencies:
-
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- py311-requests>=0 : www/py-requests@py311
- webkit2-gtk_40>0 : www/webkit2-gtk@40
- py311-pygobject>=0 : devel/py-pygobject@py311
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Library dependencies:
-
- libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- games_minigalaxy
- USES:
- gettext-tools gnome python
- pkg-message:
- For install:
- To play Linux games, the Linux binary compatibility environment
must be set up and the shebang in the start.sh scripts must be
changed to /compat/linux/bin/bash.
To play Windows games you need to install Wine.
Enjoy!
- Master Sites:
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Number of commits found: 2
| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
1.4.1
23 Feb 2026 13:16:50
 |
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd)
Author: Alexander Vereeken |
games/minigalaxy: Update 1.4.0 => 1.4.1
Changelog:
- Installations now report more intermediate steps like checksum
verifications to the UI. (thanks to GB609)
- Fix bugs related to error handling of ongoing installations.
(thanks to GB609)
- Fix an issue where CJK characters in game library path prevents the
config file from being loaded properly. (thanks to kyle-zhang-42)
- Automatically add Weblate contributions to README and About dialog on
release. (thanks to GB609)
https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy/releases/tag/1.4.1
While here replace gettext with gettext-tools in USES - the port is not
linked with libintl, but uses msgfmt to compile translations.
PR: 293348 |
1.4.0
22 Sep 2025 12:35:14
|
Lars Engels (lme)
Author: Alexander Vereeken |
games/minigalaxy: Add new port
A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG games.
The most important features of Minigalaxy:
- Log in with your GOG account
- Download the Linux games you own on GOG
- Launch them!
In addition to that, Minigalaxy also allows you to:
- Update your games
- Install and update DLC
- Select which language you'd prefer to download your games in
- Change where games are installed
- Search your GOG Linux library
- Show all games or just the ones you've installed
- View the error message if a game fails to launch
- Enable displaying the FPS in games
- Use the system's ScummVM or DOSBox installation
- Install Windows games using Wine
WWW: https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy
PR: 284721 |
Number of commits found: 2
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