Bazzite and immutable distro support

[Eliasin]

Hello!

I'm also using bazzite like #5 and both the install.sh and rpm don't work out the box. I did have success installing using the script after some modifications. Since /usr is a readonly filesystem when using rpm-ostree, I had to change most of the install directories.

# Install directories
applications_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/applications/"
icons_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/"
bin_dir="${HOME}.local/bin"
udev_dir="/etc/udev/rules.d/"
systemd_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/systemd/user/"

Alternatively, I found out that the reason why the user in #5 said "the rpm wasn't recognized" wasn't that the rpm was formatted incorrectly, but because rpm-ostree gives a bad error message, the Checkout arctis-manager-1.6.3-1.fc41.x86_64: opendir(local): No such file or directory message refers to being unable to open local in /usr because /usr/local is symlinked to /var/usrlocal mentioned here. This seems to be because /usr/local is supposed to be untouched by package managers traditionally, so rpm-ostree goes to great lengths to not modify it. I changed the packaging scripts to target /usr/ instead of /usr/local/ and rpm-ostree install worked perfectly (I'll have a PR up in a minute, I also ran into a few small issues I want to ask about).

I haven't been able to do any functionality tests because I own a Arctis Nova 7 which isn't supported yet but I want to try to add that too.

[MrAztecL]

I've followed the instructions, but when trying to launch the application, the notification pops up:

Arctis Manager service is not available. Please connect the device first and try opening the app again.

Last few lines of installation also don't seem happy:

Created symlink '/home/mraztecl/.config/systemd/user/dev-steelseries-arctis.device.wants/arctis-manager.service' → '/home/mraztecl/.local/share/systemd/user/arctis-manager.service'.
Unit /home/mraztecl/.local/share/systemd/user/arctis-manager.service is added as a dependency to a non-existent unit dev-steelseries-arctis.device.
Created symlink '/home/mraztecl/.config/systemd/user/graphical-session.target.wants/arctis-manager.service' → '/home/mraztecl/.local/share/systemd/user/arctis-manager.service'.
Job for arctis-manager.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl --user status arctis-manager.service" and "journalctl --user -xeu arctis-manager.service" for details.

[TyanColte]

Running Bazzite also. On a different project with a similar install method I changed the service install directory to /etc/systemd/user/.. which is not part of the immutable section of the distro.

and the binary copy to ${HOME}/.local/bin/...

and that worked great.

[krzdv]

hey, i'm new to this but want to give it a try. I am on bazzite too and trying to understand how you got it working.
I own the Arctis Nova 7X (lsusb says "ID 1038:2206 SteelSeries ApS Arctis Nova 7X").

Do I download the rpm and use rpm-ostree? But where/when do I have to change the install directory?
Any help is much appreciated!

[MrAztecL]

Unfortunately, I never did. I tried to change the directories, and something even showed up in apps, but I wasn't able to start the service at all.

[Rhodderz]

I was able to get this installed and working by running

rpm-ostree usroverlay --hotfix
sudo yum install libffi-devel
curl -fsSL https://pyenv.run | bash

then finally (with the receiver plugged in, on and on the correct usb port)

PREFIX=/usr/local/share ./install.sh

Need to use --hotfix to make sure changes are kept across reboots.