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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I am speaking from Bazzite experience so it might be slightly different, but I wouldn’t do #2. What I would do is install distrobox (pre installed on Bazzite, with boxbuddy for gui), create an Arch distrobox, and use that to access AUR.
If you want to install a package, you layer it using rpm-ostree. Don’t fuck with the immutability imo
smeg@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Apparently distrobox come pre-installed. Also I don’t think there’s any rpm-ostree on steamos, that’s a Fedora Atomic thing.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Ah, so it is. Quick Google search tells me that layering packages isn’t even supported on SteamOS, which seems weird to me.
So I’m guessing pacman doesn’t work properly since it’s immutable… What are your options besides flatpak and distrobox?
Huh.
smeg@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Well that’s not what the OS is designed for, it’s designed to be simple to update and hard to break. If you really want a traditional package manager then you can just install a different OS, I guess.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Rpm-ostree isn’t really a traditional package manager (that would be pacman, which SteamOS does apparently have even though it presumably doesn’t work correctly).