Downloading the StarCraft II Linux packages

Download the latest Linux packages for the StarCraft game from https://github.com/Blizzard/s2client-proto#downloads and extract it onto your hard disk at ~/StarCraftII. For example, to download version 4.1.2 to your ~/StarCraftII/ folder, you can use the following command:

          wget http://blzdistsc2-a.akamaihd.net/Linux/SC2.4.1.2.60604_2018_05_16.zip -O ~/StarCraftII/SC2.4.1.2.zip

Let's unzip and extract the files to the ~/StarCraftII/ directory:

          unzip ~/StarCraftII/SC2.4.1.2.zip -d ~/StarCraftII/

Note that, as mentioned on the download page, the files are password protected with the password 'iagreetotheeula.

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