From my point of view EndlessOS is piece of garbage that should be renamed on LimitedOS since uses only flatpaks that are on the long way to go to be usable reasoning:
- Winepaks are not usable and abadoned
- Phoenicis is currently in alpha so games from it are unreliable
- Lutris doesn’t have flatpak yet
- It’s impossible to install WINE on EndlessOS since it doesn’t have compiler and getting one working on it is pita since it’s using ostree file hierarchy, because standarts are for nubs.
So i decided to share a guide to get those apps working on endless using gentoo chroot.
Disclaimer: You are performing this procedure on your own free will and i’m not responsible for anything.
Proof-of-Concept:
https : // i . imgur . com/93XgqnL.png
Terminology:
- EndlessOS == Host
- Gentoo Linux == Guest
- non-root == output of
echo $UIDis not0 - root == output of
echo $UIDis0
in this scenario
- Make a new directory in /mnt (will use /mnt/gentoo in this example)
- Go on gentoo . org/downloads/ and grab download url for your architecture
- Download stage3 into /mnt/gentoo.
- Make a new file in /mnt/gentoo (will use
chrootmein this example) - Parse following in chrootme:
#!/bin/bash
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount --make-rslave /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --make-rslave /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --rbind /tmp /mnt/gentoo/tmp
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
This is going to mount required filesystems and chroot into /mnt/gentoo meaning that you will be able to access gentoo on /mnt/gentoo using terminal simmilar to virtualbox.
Make it executable using chmod
6) Create a new alias in $HOME/.bashrc for chroot /mnt/gentoo
Example:
alias ge="chroot /mnt/gentoo"
Now if you invoke ge something that something will be invoked on guest from host.
7) invoke /mnt/gentoo/chrootme as root.
8) Install required packages on gentoo:
# Install Layman, xorg and lutris
## Layman is used to manage gentoo overlays to get bobwya's wine
EMERGE_DEFAULTS_OPTS="--autounmask-write --quiet --jobs" emerge layman xorg-x11 lutris
# Add bobwya's wine using layman
layman -S && layman -a bobwya
# Install bobwya's wine
## List of packages here
github . com/bobwya/bobwya/tree/master/app-emulation/wine-staging
## We will install wine-staging-4.2_p1::bobwya
EMERGE_DEFAULTS_OPTS="--autounmask-write --quiet --jobs" emerge =wine-staging-4.2_p1::bobwya
If you encounter problems with changes to /etc/portage alike:
Invoke dispatch-conf on guest and follow up with use-new in TUI (Terminal User Interface), then reinvoke emerge command.
9) Make a new user on guest.
We will use minion for a user in this example:
useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio,video -s /bin/bash minion
10) grab .Xauthority file from host
We need .Xauthority for xorg to see a new display.
xauth list $DISPLAY on host
xauth extract /mnt/gentoo/home/minion/.Xauthority endless/unix:0
Change endless/unix:0 based on output from xauth list.. if needed
xauth extract needs to reinvoked after each restart for some reason(?)
- You should be all set.
For sake of demonstration we will open up league of legends on endless now
Download League of Legeds in /mnt/gentoo/home/minion/Downloads and rename it on something without spaces like lolinstall.exe
on guest invoke su minion to swich into a non-root
Invoke wine /home/minion/Downloads/lolinstall.exe on guest as non-root
Troubleshooting:
Will be added on demand.
Feel free to join https://discord.gg/bQHrGP or contact kreyren (me) on irc.freenode.org with questions.