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Installing mods in Linux
By bob
How to install mods and add-on maps in Linux
   
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Category: Co-op, Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration
Languages: English
Game Modes: Campaigns, Mutations, Survival, Versus
Modding: Maps
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28 Apr, 2014 @ 9:11pm
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Installing mods and maps
For workshop mods: Simply subscribe to the mod and it will be downloaded when the game is launched.

For outside mods:

http://l4dmaps.com, http://l4d2maps.us, and L4D2 Gamebanana[l4d2.gamebanana.com] are popular websites for mods and maps.

  • Download the mod.
  • The file should be downloaded in a zipped folder, so unzip the file to any location. It should be a .vpk file. Leave the folder window you unzipped the file to open.
  • Open Steam and go to your game library. Right click on Left 4 Dead 2, and select "properties." Click on "local files" and select "browse local files." A new file browser should open, with the main L4D2 folder (steamapps>common>Left 4 Dead 2).
  • From the new file browser, select the folder "left4dead2." From this folder, select the folder "addons."
  • You are now in the addons folder, and this is where you should put your .vpk mod files. With the folder still open where you unzipped the add-on file to, copy and paste or cut and paste the .vpk file to the L4D2 addons folder.
  • Your mod should now work when you open L4D2. Most mods and maps will work in Linux just like in Windows or Mac.

Do not unpack the .vpk files, any files that are not in .vpk format will likely not work in L4D2. The correct .vpk files should work in L4D2 after being placed in the addons folder without any further installation necessary.
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Бригадир 16 Apr, 2022 @ 1:47pm 
yo does anyone know how to make vocalizer cancellable? pressing RMB on windows can cancel lines but i can't do it on linux
Aromko Komondor Sheepdog 26 Aug, 2018 @ 1:31am 
Tahanks
TriDundancy 12 Jul, 2016 @ 9:39am 
k so i could not get that working so i just kind of looked through my computer for about a half hour and i found it. thanks for the help anyway.
TriDundancy 12 Jul, 2016 @ 8:42am 
When I click the browse local files it doesn't open anything I tryed clicking it like a million times.
#"S4." 1:08:4017:K2;4:58 3 Apr, 2015 @ 5:24pm 
nice
BoHuggabee 1 May, 2014 @ 6:10pm 
WHERE WHERE WHERE IS THIS ADD-ONS FOLDER I KEEP HEARING ABOUT CAUSE I DON'T EVEN HAVE A FOLDER, IT IS JUST AN APP, AND YOU CLICK IT AND THE SITE OPENS AND YOU CAN'T FIND AND FOLDERS ON THE SITE, OR THE APP, NO FOLDERS ANYWHERE, I NEED THIS ADD-ONS FOLDER, BUT I CAN'T EVEN FIND THE GAME, LET ALONE A FOLDER FOR THE GAME.
Magic Power 22 Apr, 2014 @ 3:15pm 
A nice little guide. Valve did a good job making l4D2 (and a whole lot of other games) as easy on Linux as it is on Windows. (I assume Mac OSX as well, but I have had no experience with that).

There is though one little bug with addons, that is present in the Linux version of L4D2, that is not in Windows. Luckily, that bug is rare, and easy to fix:

If you have downloaded a VPK-file where the filename has multiple dots in it, (example: SuicideBlitz.v2.vpk ), the addon will fail under Linux L4D2. If this happens, simply rename the file and remove the extra dots. (example: SuicideBlitzv2.vpk ).