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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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 months ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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 3 months ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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).