Open geerlingguy opened 11 months ago
Hi, both itali and ryanfortner are pi-apps contributors and/or maintainers (along with myself and botspot). We felt it was best in July to bring these box86/box64 repos under the pi-apps banner (rather than their personal repos) for use within pi-apps that way we can guarantee stability. They are then free to develop their own personal repos (or let them rot) without fear of breaking a lot of users systems (we had 4-5 instances of breakages that prompted this change).
I would suggest instead using the Pi-Apps-Coders repositories for both box86 and box64 https://github.com/Pi-Apps-Coders/box64-debs https://github.com/Pi-Apps-Coders/box86-debs Both are updated daily (if a new commit exists upstream) and use cross compilation to build rather than ARMhf/ARM64 in QEMU which is 10X slower.
and just an fyi, both run systemd-binfmt as part of a postinst script, so there is no need to run that manually as the README here says
I was trying to debug why some games on Steam would not run on my installation when others reported they did on theirs... and it looks like the installation instructions in the README recommend installing the package
box64-generic-arm
.The package name for generic
arm64
as mentioned on @ryanfortner's GitHub README isbox64-arm64
.If I install according to the current README, I wind up with a version of box64 that was compiled on July 14 (
0.2.3+20230714.88a59b4-1
), but if I install the proper package I get the latest nightly build, which in this case is0.2.5+20230918.4b6cec8-1