Can you guys port Bizhawk to Ubuntu in addition to Arch Linux?
BizHawk already has a Linux version. The only official release is a generic catch-all on GitHub, which supports pretty much every GNU/Linux distro: https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/releases/latest
Distro specific packages would be third party, and generally speaking they aren't doing anything other than just repackaging the same generic GitHub release anyways.
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
Q-Tee wrote:
Can you guys port Bizhawk to Ubuntu in addition to Arch Linux?
BizHawk already has a Linux version. The only official release is a generic catch-all on GitHub, which supports pretty much every GNU/Linux distro: https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/releases/latest
Distro specific packages would be third party, and generally speaking they aren't doing anything other than just repackaging the same generic GitHub release anyways.
I have difficulty using Bizhawk on Ubuntu due to apparently not supporting Ubuntu, as I'm not familiar with this tar.gz. file type, so how can I solve it if not including it in Ubuntu's software manager?
I have difficulty using Bizhawk on Ubuntu due to apparently not supporting Ubuntu, as I'm not familiar with this tar.gz. file type, so how can I solve it if not including it in Ubuntu's software manager?
It's an archive, like a .zip file. For most DEs you can literally just right click the file and click extract. There is then an EmuHawkMono.sh file you execute which handles starting up BizHawk.
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I use Ubuntu 22.04 for testing sometimes. You should only need to install mono-complete from the Ubuntu repo.
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