Hello, Following the discussion on raising the fileno limit to make Steam Proton [1] work well on Fedora I was wondering if anyone managed to build it and document it somewhere. I believe someone did it since they reported completely stable compatibility [2] on Fedora 28 but couldn't find build instructions. I tried and spent a fair amount of cycles on this before giving up and it appears to me that the situation is quite the mess. Fedora first. I didn't manage to use schroot that Proton relies on according to its README because the apt package in Fedora is in fact apt-rpm. I understand that it's solving a problem that often users will see "apt install this" or "apt-get install that" on the web and when package names match with Debian derivatives then things JustWork(tm). But when what you want is regular apt, then you are on your own. I managed to build it from source but then _some_ things don't work and I only have so many cycles to spend. It would be nice to have the regular apt package too so savvy users could pick it over the apt-rpm variant. Other than that, thanks to the dpkg-related package maintainers, I can do most of my foreign packaging work thanks to them. But those tools are also a constant reminder that I wish Debian would have a mock equivalent (with no complicated setup and privilege requirements, something that just works). Even if the above was solved, the way Proton is built is a clear no-no for Fedora because of bundling and a messy build system that requires an internet access. Steam second. So I tried to build Proton in a Debian VM and things get ugly real quick. The README has been updated since I last tried so maybe I should get another round. The Steam Runtime is based on Ubuntu 12.04, no longer supported. Things happen in a chroot in an automated manner so you get the default apt configuration fetching packages over HTTP. To add insult to injury the Ubuntu 12.04 chroot failed to fetch the PGP key of the packages. Eventually I decided it was OK to skip the GPG check since it was only a temp VM but then ran into more build problems and gave up when I encountered one were the workaround didn't work. Ubuntu at last. So, new VM, using Ubuntu 18.04 this time. I tried to apt install steam but ran into a bug [3] where the proposed and accepted solution didn't work for me (I didn't keep the link to the thread, I believe it was on the Steam forums). Trying to install the missing dependencies removed apt from the system. Fedora multilib FTW! Again, new Ubuntu VM, I tried to install Steam from the software center this time and it worked. I tried to install Proton several times because it kept crashing and finally I was able to try a game from my library that didn't work in fullscreen mode on Fedora. It appeared to work fine with Proton. Then I downloaded the program I'm interested into, but I can't run it with Steam Play if it doesn't come from Steam. I tried to run Proton from the command line but to no avail. Back to square one. Does anyone have working build instructions on Fedora? I'll give a try to the updated README but right now the fileno limit is the least of my concerns... Sorry for the long rant. Thanks, Dridi [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton [2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Completely-Stable [3] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1063040/problem-with-nstalling-steam-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-bionic-beaver _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
