Fishing Planet fix for Ubuntu

If you are like me and you like to catch a few fish now and then on fishing planet but have had no satisfaction with getting it to work on Ubuntu (or other Linux distro's) via steam lately, then look no further.

Thanks to a person on the steam discussion boards, we have a fix that will let you play again.

It seems the problem is a missing file.

I have compiled a visual walk through of the installation process of these folders and files: (click photos to enlarge)

Here I am extracting the file via right clicking the file in my downloads folder and choosing "extract here".

Once this is done, you should have this folder. We need a folder inside it that is labeled "Fishing Planet".

Copy the "Fishing Planet" folder. 

Now we need to go to the Fishing Planet folder in steam. We start by making the .steam folder visible with control-h. Then enter the folder by double clicking it.

Next enter the steam folder. I know this may be confusing to some. For some reason there is a steam folder inside the .steam folder.

Then we enter the steamapps folder.

Now we enter the common folder.

Inside the common folder should be a folder that already exists. If you right click anywhere below the folders here, and choose paste, you will then get the next few screenshots:

Make sure to click "merge" on all of these messages.

and click merge again

and this is the finale "merge" we need. Fishing Planet should now run. You can now close these windows, and delete the files you downloaded if you wish.

One side note, for some reason Fishing Planet now has a white screen for a couple of seconds.

It still runs after this... and I am not certain why it's there.

The game plays fine for me, I hope this works for you as well.

Here is proof that it worked for me:

Here's the download link from my own personal Google Drive account:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hdJuXF-s78CyYWeJoQ7cS8TZsLe2e4qw/view?usp=sharing

Google Drive will try to "preview" this link for you. It can't because it's a zipped file. Instead, just click the little "down arrow into a box" looking download button on the top right of the browser window to download it.

Happy fishing!

-Denny