Cant install anything
Basically this shows up everytime i try to install anything, happened with decky loader and EmuDeck.
Its Bazzite, fresh install, Rog Ally Z1E, tried reinstalling OS twice and this problem persists, searched online and havent find a single documented case.
Help!
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For bazzite the ways to get software in order are
The developers' ranking (from most to least-recommended) is:
- ujust scripts (terminal or portal in menu)
- Flatpak (Bazaar in menu. Flatseal & Warehouse to manage permissions or cleanup)
- Homebrew (terminal as 'brew')
- Quadlet (container as systemd service) (setup in text files and ran via terminal)
- Distrobox (Distroshelf program in menu)
- AppImage (Gear Lever from Bazaar to add them to menu. They don't auto update, be aware. Not without setting it up in gear lever)
- Layering (
rpm-ostree install PACKAGENAME or rpm-ostree install PACKAGENAME.rpm. Do not use this if you can avoid it)
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/
It looks like you're trying to get emudeck and decky plugins by hand/using the installers from the git or website. I instead recommend the ujust scripts made just for it.
You can view them all with the command
ujust --choose
in terminal. There's a web portal version in the menu as well
"Bazzite Portal Setup"
with a more limited selection.
For emudeck and decky merely look for those. Emudeck in particular is
ujust install-emudeck
For decky it is
ujust setup-decky
and to see/install available decky plugins it will be
ujust install-decky-plugins
Something to note is linux is generally the opposite of windows when it comes to software. Getting software from the web is a last-resort and has been for the longest time. We used software stores, in some form or another, for a very very long time. Much longer than windows. You want to check if it's packaged locally in various forms before relying on web sources. They're often unreliable and may or may not work on your system.
It's pretty easy to get from the web when you get more experience and know what will/won't work more just by understanding, but it's always a last resort.
Edited for clarity
Edit: Final edit @@ Am sleepy
If you aren't new to Linux apologies for the explanation being like that. I'll probably be copying and pasting this a bunch at some point.No no its completrly Fine! Thanks for all the explanation, i never used linux for real, Just stayed in the realms of steam gaming mode, thanks a Lot i Will give It a try in a bit and update in case it Works!
Of course! Linux can be a bit of a different beast. We never really had "installers" like windows which adds to website-based sources not being reliable. They'll usually provide a tailored .desktop or .sh file which are no more than glorified bat files.
Which is why other sources are almost always preferred.
With the command i was able to install it, the problem is, the icon on the desktop that opens EmuDeck configs always says it cant find the software. If i run the command to install it again, it does appear, but its not practical. Also i followed an installation guide that was 1 month ago, and i dont really know why they can just open the download and istall it normally when i cant, idk if i did something wrong
It all depends on distro. More than likely the script was made with touching on areas outside of user areas in mind. So imagine a batch file that has to touch your system32 folder.
Which...works...things have been that way for a long long time. But we're trying to move away from it so Bazzite and other atomic distros try to not do that. But it can make some installers upset.
That said I've heard alternatives to emudeck encouraged more but I forget the name. I couldn't tell you why the script needs to be run multiple times to keep it functional, though. That's likely a question for #🎮bazzite or #🎮gaming-general
Of course there are other distros with a close more traditional cousin to bazzite being Nobara, but it has a fairly slow flatpak installer. And it doesn't have ujust scripts.
So you have options but honestly I'd ask about what's wrong with the script first and foremost since it can help other bazzite users in the long run.
how to use any apps from distroboxes, as I installed Virtualbox for Linux packages there?
Distrobox isn't actually a virtual machine. It's a container.
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Distrobox/
Read this for more info
I can't help with much more than the basics as I'm just a fellow user (haven't needed distrobox yet either), but check the documentation out. It covers a lot.
I need Distrobox for using anything installed from
.deb or .rpm package filesYou'll have to read the docs. I haven't used them myself