cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31885942
You can now download or update your Speed Dreams Flatpak to the latest version (2.4.2), and enjoy our SimRacing Open Source Game in this kind of package:
https://flathub.org/apps/org.speed_dreams.SpeedDreams
Thanks once again to @son_link for his invaluable work.
Aaaand you can't install it elsewhere outside the root partition... It has to be on / , otherwise it won't start. "Perfect"... I don't like putting any games on the root partition, so... moving on to other FOSS games. It would have been great if everything were put together in one dir, similar to discord's way: /opt/Discord and that's it. With such a path you can symlink Discord to wherever you want. But you can't do that with this game.
dwaa? you'd have to try so hard to make a game fail if it isn't on the root partition. having trouble conceptualizing it
If I manually "install" the game somewhere (and by that I mean manually unpack the two zst packages from AUR's PKBUILD download sources), it refuses to start and returns a whole bunch of erors in terminal. If I let trizen decide where to install it - it starts OK. I know the game isn't large and I can keep it on the root partition, but it's about principles, not about size. How can I trust something that FORCES ME to do this, instead of that? Needless to say which corporation such a behavior reminds me of.
By "you" I meant "one", referring to the game's developer/integrator. Pardon.
Oh, I understand now. I checked PKGBUILD and it seems the path is... let's call it "hardcoded" because executables are probably looking for libraries in that specific path - /usr/lib, /usr/bin, /usr/share and so on and that's why it's failing to start, if it's not on the root partition. I'm not an expert in software developing but this smells like a bad linux port to me, bc properly made programs have quite different paths, like this: $HOME, $PATH and so on, nothing definitive like with this game.
By "properly made programs" I mean programs that will run just fine, even if I unpack their /usr in my secondary storage - /B/123/package-name/usr.
Do I understand that you have extracted the flatpak?
I mean... yeah, that's not going to work. It's hard coded to use those paths because it's meant to run in a sandboxed environment.
I wrote AUR earlier. Considering your answer, you don't know what AUR is, I take it. "Arch User Repository". I downloaded the packages from there and extracted their contents. One is binaries, the other package is game data (files, textures, etc).