The Linux client is currently plagued by many bugs, I suggest to wait for patches.

After diving deep inside to the original forum post for searching a clue, I found this,

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=13286047&postcount=1399

the guy who developed it in the first place says it might be related to a file name conflict between the files used by mod and the game itself and I guess that's what it is all about apparently.

So I managed to get it run on linux with all features working like this,

- First you need to rename the file IGE_InfoToolTipInclude.lua to IGE_Tooltip.lua (what you put as a new name is actually not important at all, it can be anything. We are just avoiding a conflict with another internal game file with quite similar name.)
- Then you need to change all the references of this file to its new name in all the other lua and xml files respectively. It is quite tiresome to manually find them one by one so I used Sublime Text editor which has the needed feature for finding and replacing text in files inside a folder recursively. Sublime Text also is not mandatory of course. I just used it because it's a common tool for me but you can use any other tool to get it done.

And it just works.

By the way I wish this mod was actually a part of the game because for me it added much more fun to it.

@koraytaylan: Oh, awesome, I'll try this! Where exactly does one go to find the extension, btw?

Thank you for the suggestion koraytaylan! I managed to get IGE working just fine using your directions. For changing all references to the renamed file, I used the following terminal command:
(This finds all files recursively in the indicated path, goes through them, and changes all occurences of 'IGE_InfoToolTipInclude' to 'IGE_Tooltip')

I also got this working with this strategy. Thanks Koraytaylan!

Hey Decius Were Do i type this command (im on windows 8)

@HopeFlamingo The suggestions in this thread fix a bug that is only present on Linux (or on Macs using a case-sensitive filesystem, I guess), they are probably not useful if you are running Windows. IGE should work fine in Windows without any issues; if this is not the case, you could look into starting a new thread describing the problems you run into.

Have a look at https://github.com/boekkooi/CIV5_IGE_LINUX if works like a charm for me

HI I got this message when using this mode.
CivBE[4825]: segfault at c9b143e2 ip 00000000c9b143e2 sp 00000000f0d2e67c error 14
[ 1803.178891] CivBE[5125]: segfault at c9a43410 ip 00000000d5cd9e93 sp 00000000f0d2def0 error 4 in libCvGameCoreDLL_BeyondEarth.so[d5814000+880000]
When i used dmesg after civ beyond earth has crashed.

Originally posted by warnar:

Have a look at https://github.com/boekkooi/CIV5_IGE_LINUX if works like a charm for me

no is not working at all

Originally posted by Decius:

Thank you for the suggestion koraytaylan! I managed to get IGE working just fine using your directions. For changing all references to the renamed file, I used the following terminal command:

find /path/to/IGE/folder -type f -exec sed -i 's/IGE_InfoToolTipInclude/IGE_Tooltip/g' {} \;

(This finds all files recursively in the indicated path, goes through them, and changes all occurences of 'IGE_InfoToolTipInclude' to 'IGE_Tooltip')

The terminal cannot find the file "path". Is there a different filename for different computers?

You need to replace that with the path to where IGE is installed :)

Originally posted by Decius:

You need to replace that with the path to where IGE is installed :)

the information posted here is no longer relevant the curent version 39 do not have the old name structure (IGE_InfoToolTipInclude)

the github link is version 37 also irrelevant