Steam-OS specific tasks
Steam Deck is an Arch Linux machine with slightly tweaked environment.
So first let's first convert it to some more standard Linux.
- Switch to Desktop mode
- Attach monitor, keyboard, mouse (if you like)
- Open
Konsoleand:
# Set the root password:
passwd
> set one you like
# Switch root file system into read-write mode
# (otherwise only flatpack apps could work)
sudo btrfs property set -ts / ro false
# or
sudo steamos-readonly disable
# Prepare the package manager to work with standard ArchLinux app catalogs
sudo pacman-key –init
sudo pacman-key –populate archlinux holoDownload and install the Argentum demo
Argentum demo goes in the form of DEB package. Arch Linux can't in DEBs, but there are two work-arounds:
- Convert it with
debtap - Or extract it and install manually.
I tried debtap but it didn't work on Steam-OS. So here is the option #2:
# Download DEB
mkdir ~/ag && cd $_
wget -O aglan_0.0-1_amd64.deb \
https://github.com/karol11/argentum/releases/download/win-lin-demo-v0.0.12/aglan_0.0-1_amd64.deb
# Extract content of the DEB package
ar xv aglan_0.0-1_amd64.deb data.tar.zst
tar -xf data.tar.zst
# Install compiler to /usr/bin/agc
# ..runtime-lib to /usr/lib/aglan/*
# ..and all examples and scripts to /usr/share/aglan/*
sudo cp -r usr /
rm -r usrInstall dependencies:
# GCC for linker
sudo pacman -S gcc
# SDL2 for graphics demo
sudo pacman -S sdl2
sudo pacman -S sdl2_imageRun it
/usr/share/aglan/runme.bash