Installing Steam on Batocera Linux

[Trashbus99]

I'm trying to install Steam on Batocera linux (x64 build) . The problem is it's a an embedded/buildroot build and has no gcc tools/make installed. The developers are currently not really interested in porting steam over even though they have Kodi running on it. Does anyone have any suggestions/instructions to install steam binaries on this version of linux? or at least a way to get make installed so could run the install script?

Thanks.

[Omega]

Publicado originalmente por storminator16:

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

You can't blame us for this distro's lack of documentation.

If we knew what it is based on, or what package manager it uses we can probably install Steam just fine.

God, I love this "everyone needs to chime in" culture. Op asked " Does anyone have any suggestions/instructions to install steam binaries on this (Batocera)version of linux?" The fact that Op asked that specific version and not about suggestions about installing another distro. For those who don't have a suggestion about Batocera/Steam, then why chime in?

I'm trying to get Steam working on Batocera as well. I hope to share my results in a few days.

Flatpak. Problem solved.

"Everyone needs to chime in culture.'. You clearly don't understand how this stuff works, you are only here to complain. I never suggested OP to install another distro, so idk where you are getting this from.

If a single person can't figure something out then the entire community probably can together. If I didn't respond on this thread it would have died or been spammed by idiots telling OP to "sudo apt-get install steam". I tried to figure out how this distro works by looking up documentation online and by asking OP, sadly there was none to find so I could only provide OP with dissapointment because I can't help him with the limited information I have on this distro.

[storminator16]

""Everyone needs to chime in culture.'. You clearly don't understand how this stuff works, you are only here to complain. I never suggested OP to install another distro, so idk where you are getting this from.

If a single person can't figure something out then the entire community probably can together. "

You are clearly butt hurting and didn't bother recognizing "community-solving" sometimes comes off as "hey, I'm not going to answer your question but you can do it way x,y,z but you already know that so why am I chiming in any way?". But you wouldn't understand that, keep squawking.

[paradox0355]

Dead post, but for future reference ... adding any extra packages to Batocera requires doing your own custom build and flashing that to your SD/USB.

[Das]

Just incase anyone finds this thread and has the same question you can do this using Flatpak as someone mentioned above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VViS6O9dF1c

[maioni]

https://wiki.batocera.org/systems:steam