How to install PixInsight on Bazzite

Bazzite
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I have an image editing program called PixInsight. I have the linux installer, but get errors on install. As far as I can tell, it tries to write files to the /usr/ directory and several sub-directories in the /usr/

Directories as shown:

PixInsight will be installed with the following parameters:

Source installation directory … PixInsight_install
PixInsight core application … /opt/PixInsight
Application desktop entry … /usr/share/applications/PixInsight.desktop
Application icons directory … /usr/share/icons/hicolor
MIME type description file … /usr/share/mime/packages/PixInsight.xml
Create /bin launcher script … yes
Remove previous installation … yes

It errors out with:

Please wait while PixInsight is being installed…
*** Error: Unable to create file: Read-only file system: /bin/PixInsight

I am very much a noob with Bazzite, but a long time Windows user. I’m sure the solution is simple, I’m just not sure what it is. Any help out there?

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Are you able to find a .rpm package of this software? The installer is trying to do something which is not allowed.

Bazzite uses an image-based operating system, meaning that certain areas are ‘locked down’ for better security/stability/update reliability….the installation path /usr is not really a good installation path for software in this OS.

if you do find an rpm version follow these instructions from docs:

You may wish to look for alternative softwares through the bazaar store app. Installation of flatpaks is much easier.

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Try installing that with distroshelf