Modding Help Unpacked .paks for Linux Ubuntu

Hi xxswatelitexx, this is the steps (as detailled as I can) :

Step 5 has to be done once by file (do it again if you download a new version of the mod).

PS : I'm not such a good Linux GUI user so if someone know a way to launch a shell script through the user interface, you are welcome to tell me .
It will avoid steps 3,4 and 6

 

Thanks. After re-reading it I saw that there was a very litlle mistake and so that I created an account and fixed it.

 

Alright I unpacked using Dolan's program but I ran into another issue. It seems alot of the files were missing

I've been also making attempts at the official unpacker, however, I am running into another issue with it.

Code:

stormalisk@STORMTOP:~$ cd /home/stormalisk/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux32/
stormalisk@STORMTOP:~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux32$ ./asset_unpacker
Usage: ./asset_unpacker <assets pak path> <target output directory>
If the target output directory does not exist it will be created
stormalisk@STORMTOP:~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux32$ ./asset_unpacker cd /home/stormalisk/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/assets/packed.pak
Exception caught: AssetBackendException: Asset database cd is missing
./asset_unpacker(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC1ERKSs+0xe7) [0x80acf77]
./asset_unpacker(_ZN4Star21AssetsDatabaseBackendC2ERKNS_6StringE+0x1c0) [0x8079ee0]
./asset_unpacker(main+0xc9) [0x8072569]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0xb73f6935]
./asset_unpacker() [0x807337d]

stormalisk@STORMTOP:~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux32$

 

Hi Stormalisk, could you give me a feedback about the issue you get with my tool in my mod discussion ?

About the message you get it's because you didn't gave any arguments when you launch "./asset_unpacker".
This program needs 2 arguments, as it says to you, to work :
Arg1 : <assets pak path>
Arg2 : <target output directory>

So when you launch the asset_unpacker, give it the two arguments it need, separated by a space.
In your case you would have to do that (Path will be much more comprehensive if you prompt in the Starbound root directory) :
1]

Code:

cd /home/stormalisk/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/

2]

Code:

./linux32/asset_unpacker ./assets/packed.pack ./assets/_unpacked

3] Then wait until you get a successfull message. It could take a while depending on your computer perfomances.

Explanations :
- 1] "cd /..." : Place you in Starbound root folder.
- 2a] "./linux 32/asset_unpacker" : launch asset_unpacker which is located (from where you are) in the linux 32 folder (Have to add a space between linux and 32 to avoid a smiley ).
- 2b] "./assets/packed.pack" : Tell asset_unpacker that the file I want to extract is (from where I am) "packed.pak" in "assets" folder.
- 2c] "./assets/_unpacked" : Tell asset_unpacker that I want the extraction to placed (from where I am) in a folder called "unpacked", in the folder "assets".

 

Is there any punctuation i must use for the arguments?

EDIT: It is working! It finished

 

To reply for the punctuation, space character is used to specify arguments separation. That's why if you've got a path with a space in the arguments, you'll have to double quote it.
ie : ./asset_unpacker ./assets/packed.pak "./space folder/_unpacked"