ptitSeb
Box64, Box86, Steam, and Arch Linux Issues
I apologize if this is the incorrect place to raise this issue, but I've pretty much ran into a brick wall. Arch Linux was ported to the AYN Odin 2 by the people at the Renegade Project, with the latest version released in June of 2024. Given that the L4T Linux modders were able to use Box64 and Box86 to install and run Steam on the Nintendo Switch (albeit on Ubuntu), I tried my hand in seeing if I could do the same. Unfortunately, every time I tried to install box86, there were issues, with the most recent I tried seemingly building correctly but with box86 --help not being seen as a command by the system (I took this to mean it didn't build correctly). To make matters more difficult, Arch Linux relies on the multilib section of pacman.conf to include Steam. Due to the multilib section not being included in aarch64 versions of Arch Linux, finding a method to install Steam has been difficult (I even tried adding the multilib section, but with no results (someone more versed in Arch than I would probably say it's obvious that it wouldn't work). Overall, I have no idea on how to proceed. Any help in both properly building box86 and getting Steam running would be greatly appreciated. For the sake of clarity, I did look into whether similar issues arose previously, and tried to follow directions posted by Raezroth in Issue #942. Unfortunately, it did not go as planned. Again, any help in this would be appreciated. Thank you.
I don't think the Odyn2 support 32bits. You will not be able to use box86 there. But you can enable "box32" in box64 instead. It should work on the Odyn2 and you should be able to launch steam using 64bits stuffs only.
(I do have an Odyn2 running Arch, and box64+box32 works, but I haven't tried the Steam client yet there).
Ok, that sounds good. I just took a look into the info you made for building with box32, and I'll try it out. I did find a method I'm gonna try out for installing Steam, so I'll try again soon. If I find an issue, I'll spend some time scouring Google for info and fixes. If I can't find anything else, I'll raise an issue on Box64 rather than on here. Thanks for the help!
maybe wait for aarch64 native steam client is more reasonable，it cost about 6gigs of ram just for opening steam on my Nintendo switch，steam can’t do anything without a huge swapfile.
