Hello everyone. I am new to Bazzite and linux in general. I am sure that you’ve seen my kind. As a standard win10 user I am a bit baffled with some of the new stuff I need to learn so I turn to you to ask.
First of all, I don’t know how to “install” certain stuff.
Playing another game, in this case, Shadowverse Worlds Beyond, sometimes makes me use QR to build decks. But instead of using Dolphin for it it uses this white window that finds nothing if I try to enter whatever folder. Do I need to give it permissions? Is there a way to use Dolphin instead? (I don’t even know how that program is called)…
The setup script copies over installs the game into /opt/ directory. How quaint.
I would instead follow the next instruction to unpack the nested game directory into some nicer place, like ~/Games/. There will be executable binary file to launch the game. I would go a step further and also add the game to Lutris (+ icon on the top => Add locally installed game => set name, executable, native runner, blah blah blah).
Makes sense to me. I found out a little ago that /opt was a directory, but I can’t seem to enter via Dolphin. That sucks, will research how to do this.
I assume you can’t write to an /opt/, is that correct?
There’s tiny padlock icon in Dolphin’s search bar that essentially means “Not enough permission”. You need admin permissions root priviliges to write into that dir. You can right click in Dolphin => Open as administrator => enter password => ??? => write permitted.
This white filepicker is what Wine, — the thing that runs Windows stuff, — uses to pick files. Wish it could use native desktop portals to call pickers and stuf, but alas, to my knowledge it is not possible.
If you search using the search bar on bottom, this one only searches current directory, not even recursively. Try checking Documents or My Computer or whatever there is. This picker can be quiet confusing.
You know, I did the open as admin thing and setup.sh still doesn’t want to work. I also tried pasting the tar.gz in /games/ but I also can´t do that, I was just able to make a folder inside…
Not enough permissions for script to write into /opt/ apparently…
❯ ./setup.sh
root privileges required
… sure enough. It’s got to write into root-owned directory after all.
Ah, and also this particular script will attempt to write into /usr/share/applications/, which is not normally writeable on Bazzite, not even by root. You could of course, but you should not.
Just unpack the tar.gz archive and copy itgmania directory to someplace in your home, like ~/Games/ or wherever, up to your preference. Note the ~/, this is a short way to refer to current user’s home directory (expands to /var/home/<your_user_here>/). Setup is not necessary, it’s just a slightly smarter copyover.
