Manual Installation (Linux)

GoldenEye: Source is unofficially playable on Linux via Proton (after making a few tweaks)

Install Steam

Steam must be installed and the user must have a Steam account. Download Steam here.

Install Source SDK Base 2007

You will need to install Source SDK Base 2007 and configure it to run via an appropriate version of Proton.

  1. Search your Steam library for “Source SDK Base 2007”
  2. Right-click it, then choose Properties
  3. Click the Compatibility tab
  4. Choose Proton 10.0
  5. Close the properties window
  6. In the Steam library window, click Install

Install GoldenEye: Source

  1. Download the zip archive from the Alternative Downloads page.
  2. Navigate to Steam/steamapps/sourcemods and create the gesource folder
  3. Extract the contents of the zip archive to gesource
    • For reference: your gesource folder should contain a file named gameinfo.txt. That’s how you know you extracted it to the right place.

Restart Steam

For GoldenEye: Source to appear in your games library, Steam must be restarted after the installation is completed.

Essential Fixes

There are a couple things you need to do to make GE:S fully functional.

Steam Account Used Elsewhere

If you try to join a server, you get the message that your account is used elsewhere.

Solution 1: Run on LAN

If your goal is to play offline with bots or via LAN, you can use the “Run on LAN” checkbox in the Create Server window, which bypasses this error.

Solution 2: Steam Auth Fix

If you want to play online, a fix was supplied in the form of a Source engine addon by eepycats on GitHub:

  1. Download release.zip
    • SHA256 sum (for verification purposes): c44d29fced2144aff0c180d69e9e30cff4ed528dc10a33bda7eda9d351caaecc
  2. Extract the addons folder to Steam/steamapps/sourcemods/gesource
  3. Restart GE:S and try to join a server

Incorrect Fonts

If you’re missing the Verdana fonts, you’ll see the wrong fonts on the menu, chat window, and kill feed.

These fonts are copyrighted so we won’t distribute them here, but we’ll tell you where to get them:

  1. Download this EXE file
  2. Extract the file using a compatible archival tool such as File Roller, Ark, p7zip, etc…
  3. Copy the TTF files to Steam/steamapps/compatdata/218/pfx/drive_c/windows/Fonts