Skip to content

Install RetroArch home folder under /var #8

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Draft
mpfaff wants to merge 2 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Draft

Install RetroArch home folder under /var #8

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
08c1209
Install RetroArch home folder under /var
mpfaff Oct 8, 2026
c3e0371
mkdir
mpfaff Oct 8, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion build_files/build.sh
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ dnf5 install -y p7zip
7z x RetroArch.7z -o/opt/RetroArch
dnf5 remove p7zip

mkdir -p /var/arcade/RetroArch
mv /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch.AppImage
mv /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage.home /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch.AppImage.home
mv /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage.home /var/arcade/RetroArch/RetroArch.AppImage.home
rm -d /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64

ln -s /var/arcade/RetroArch/RetroArch.AppImage.home /opt/RetroArch/RetroArch.AppImage.home
# TODO: any files we want to be immutable and update with the image should go under /opt and be symlinked in
# TODO: generate two variants of RetroArch config file under /opt, with and without kiosk mode, and link in so it can be toggled by ujust
# alternatively, produce a template of the config that can be rendered to the live config under /var