GetTSO

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GetTSO
Original author(s) Fatbag
Initial release November 21, 2011 (2011-11-21)
Stable release 1.0.0 / November 21, 2011; 7 years ago (2011-11-21)
Written in bash script
Operating system Unix-like
Size 16.4kB
Type Downloader
License Public domain
Website niotso.org/GetTSO.sh
GetTSO is a bash command-line tool that allows users of Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) to download The Sims Online through the official trial link from EA by replicating the behavior of EA's Windows-only downloader.

The tool uses wget to retrieve the game files via ftp and validates their checksums with the ones listed in the downloaded manifest.txt file. After all files have been downloaded and verified, the contents are extracted with cabextract into the desired directory and the cab files are deleted.

This tool depends on the following packages: