feat: SteamOS support

[thicvc]

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1. Download amd appimage
2. Double click on file
3. File doesn't open

Expected behavior
It opens

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Platform (please complete the following information):

• OS: [steam os]
• Version [e.g. 1.4.1]

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[andrewbenington]

From some initial research, it looks like the only supported way to install software on SteamOS is through flatpak. AppImages won't work. I will look into building a flatpak version of the app, but it is more involved than building other Linux app formats.

It would be great to have SteamOS support though, so I'll make this my next priority.

[andrewbenington]

Accidentally closed this. I need to publish to the flatpak repo before this can be considered done

[andrewbenington]

More work needs to be done on the flatpak. They prefer to have the whole app built during the flatpak build process instead of just downloading a binary, so I will need to figure out how to build the whole project in the flatpak manifest

[Amberarch]

I don't understand why appimages supposedly don't work on the steam deck. I use appimages on mine all the time without any issues.

[andrewbenington]

From a cursory search I found a lot of articles and Reddit posts that claim AppImages don't work well with SteamOS without workarounds. I don't have a steam deck myself to verify. So you can just run AppImages on your deck with no issues?

[Amberarch]

I'm going to look into a way to resolve the issue of the appimages from my fork not running on the steam deck. It's looking like the problem is either a missing sofile or an incompatable sofile.

But @andrewbenington to answer your question, this is the first time I've ever had issues running appimages on the steam deck.

[andrewbenington]

interesting. i wonder if it's a sandboxing issue? have you successfully run AppImage software that accesses the filesystem? or can you not get OpenHome to launch at all?

[Amberarch]

The problem was with glic version compatibility. I was able to build an appimage that runs on the steam deck using docker. I'll write some scripts for it tomorrow.