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Hi, so I was following the GOL article to get distrobox up and running so I can use Vivaldi on my steamdeck, which I've had for day or so. I was able to get it running from the command line when I access it directly, both the Ubuntu box(copied from the article), and Vivaldi, but that's where the video and article end. So I tried to use the command found on distrobox's github page to create a link so I could hook that into steam, "distrobox-export --app Vivaldi" and it creates the link with proper icons, and the script works fine when I copypaste it into cmd, but when I click on it it doesn't do anything. Same thing with the icon made for the Ubuntu box, but that one flashes a terminal on screen for a second before failing.
I'm probably missing something obvious, but if y'all could help this Linux noob, that'd be greatly appreciated.
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Missing dependency: we need a container manager.
Please install one of podman or docker.
You can follow the documentation on:
man distrobox-compatibility
or:
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/compatibility.md
An error occurred
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.
"/home/deck/.local/bin/distrobox-enter -n ubuntu-20-04 -- ' /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable %U'"
Any help is appreciated!
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I know that the written article here on GamingOnLinux mentions using podman for this, and I presume that it's meant to do what you want it to do here. I think it would be worth narrowing down whether it's installed and not working, or if it was accidentally missed or somehow managed to fail to install.
Disclaimer: I don't have a Steam Deck - I just happened to check out the GOL articles about Distrobox because I found them interesting and potentially useful.
Last edited by Pengling on 26 September 2022 at 5:03 am UTC
Don't worry, obvious fixes are always the first thing to check. I've been able to run it through the script above, and the files are there, so I'm assuming so.
Was getting this error also whenever I tried to run 'distrobox list'
WARN[0000] "/" is not a shared mount, this could cause issues or missing mounts with rootless containers
Running this command: (found from: https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/3726)
sudo mount --make-rshared /
seemed to fix the error, but it didn't fix everything. 'distrobox stop' for example gives you a permission denied error, and won't let you stop it. Installing programs that aren't in /usr/bin also won't allow you to run the programs by typing in their names. For example, installing Warzone 2100 puts the executable in /usr/games/, and trying to run the command 'warzone2100' to run it just returns a "command not found" error. But when you actually navigate to the file location and execute it in the CLI it runs perfectly fine.
Distrobox implementation on SteamOS is far from perfect and is extremely buggy as of now. Hopefully some of these issues may be fixed in the future, but for now its practically unusable as it is very tedious to do anything.
Don't know if you ever figured it out, but the fix is to put $PATH (set in the DistroBox install instructions) into the KDE env directory (~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/). I then sourced it in my .bashrc, but then the DistroBox $PATH is there twice.
Problem is that KDE has no clue to use the updated $PATH because it's not sourcing .bashrc.
Source: https://userbase.kde.org/Session_Environment_Variables
Thank you! I had just about given up on it, and am using another, sub-optimal solution instead. I did what you said, and was able to fix the inability to find pacman, but then this came up,
"Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
[22970:22970:1015/201938.072619:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(247)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[22970:22970:1015/201938.072660:ERROR:env.cc(226)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
An error occurred"
I'm not sure what went wrong, any help you can provide?