Installation

Index

1. Any Distro
2. Arch Linux
3. SteamOS
4. NixOS
5. Alternative install scripts

Any Distro

Pre requisites:

• 32 bit glibc
• 32 bit OpenSSL
• 32 bit curl

Installation:

• Get latest SLSsteam-Any.7z from releases.
• Extract it somewhere, go into the newly created SLSsteam directory and open a terminal there.
• Run ./setup.sh install to install SLSsteam.

Running:

Open Steam from your Desktop Environment's kickstarter.

Arch Linux

Installation:

• Grab SLSsteam-Arch.pkg.tar.zst from releases.
• Open terminal in same folder where you downloaded the file to and run sudo pacman -U SLSsteam-Arch.pkg.tar.zst

Running:

Open SLSsteam or SLSsteam-native from your Desktop Environment's kickstarter.

SteamOS

Pre requisites:

• Follow the guide for Any Distro
• Run SLSsteam once and then enable SafeMode. Not doing this risks your device soft bricking when the Steam client updates!
• Disable readonly mode
• Set a root password

Installation (only required for gamemode):

• Open /usr/bin/steam in your Editor of choice running as root.
• Add export LD_AUDIT="/home/deck/.local/share/SLSsteam/library-inject.so:/home/deck/.local/share/SLSsteam/SLSsteam.so" as the second last line (before the one starting with exec)
• Fully close Steam (if it's open) and make sure it still starts correctly. Otherwise your Deck will soft brick the next time you reboot your device/switch to gamemode!

Running:

Start Steam in any way imaginable.

NixOS (Added & written by DeveloperMikey)

Installation:

• Add this to your flake inputs:

sls-steam = {
  url = "github:AceSLS/SLSsteam";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

• Then, add it to your packages

Running:

Run SLSsteam from the terminal.

Alternative install scripts

h3adcr-b by Deadboy666: Automatically downloads latest SLSsteam release, updates Steam, patches ~/.steam/steam/steam.sh & disables Steamclient updates. Works on Arch, SteamOS, Bazzite, Fedora, Debian & Flatpak version of Steam