L4T Ubuntu
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Intro
L4T Ubuntu is a version of Linux based on nvidia's linux for tegra project. It uses a different kernel compared to previous releases which allows it to use features not yet in mainline. Such as audio, docking support and vulkan.

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We have a wiki !
To facilitate our work we will only update our wiki from now on in order to avoid multiple outdated references, please refer to the following link instead of this page
https://wiki.switchroot.org/en/Linux/Ubuntu-Install-Guide

Credits
Bylaws,
Langerhans,
Ave,
Natinusala,
CTCaer(most of the hard stuff),
Gavin_Darkglider,
DanielOgorchock(Joycon drivers/joycond),
stary2001 (reboot2payload),
NVIDIA,
Azkali
Everyone else in switchroot - more info on that in the future.

 

[Deleted User]

Run these commands in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dolphin-emu/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install dolphin-emu-master

That will get you Dolphin.

I'm using an unofficial build of Dolphin called Ishiiruka since it works better with Vulkan and gives a bit of a performance boost.
https://github.com/Tinob/Ishiiruka

It's a lot more involved to install Ishiiruka, but it's not necessarily difficult. You'll get a bunch of dependency errors that you have to manually install.

ok cool, ty. I'll wait and see if someone does a guide for the Vulkan build then, since that seems to be the better option.

 

[stick267]

ok cool, ty. I'll wait and see if someone does a guide for the Vulkan build then, since that seems to be the better option.

You might as well install stock Dolphin, I believe Ishiiruka relies on many of its libraries.

To get started installing Ishiiruka:

git clone https://github.com/Tinob/Ishiiruka.git
cd Ishiiruka
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

When you run cmake is where you'll start to get dependency errors. You'll see errors like "package name is required but not found". Just google the package name, install it thru terminal (sudo apt install package-name), and run "cmake .." again. You'll get another error. Rinse and repeat until it finishes without error. Then run

make

and it'll compile for like an hour. Then run

sudo make install

and voila you have Ishiiruka Dolphin with Vulkan support.

 

[Deleted User]

does it work with autorcm? yes or?

 

[avattar]

does it work with autorcm? yes or?

Yes, you just have to configure hekate to boot l4t. There are instructions on this thread.

 

[crow132]

does it work with autorcm? yes or?

sure it does

 

[Deleted User]

You might as well install stock Dolphin, I believe Ishiiruka relies on many of its libraries.

To get started installing Ishiiruka:

git clone https://github.com/Tinob/Ishiiruka.git
cd Ishiiruka
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

When you run cmake is where you'll start to get dependency errors. You'll see errors like "package name is required but not found". Just google the package name, install it thru terminal (sudo apt install package-name), and run "cmake .." again. You'll get another error. Rinse and repeat until it finishes without error. Then run

make

and it'll compile for like an hour. Then run

sudo make install

and voila you have Ishiiruka Dolphin with Vulkan support.

Sweet stuff, I'll get tight on it! Thank you!

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You might as well install stock Dolphin, I believe Ishiiruka relies on many of its libraries.

To get started installing Ishiiruka:

git clone https://github.com/Tinob/Ishiiruka.git
cd Ishiiruka
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

When you run cmake is where you'll start to get dependency errors. You'll see errors like "package name is required but not found". Just google the package name, install it thru terminal (sudo apt install package-name), and run "cmake .." again. You'll get another error. Rinse and repeat until it finishes without error. Then run

make

and it'll compile for like an hour. Then run

sudo make install

and voila you have Ishiiruka Dolphin with Vulkan support.

Sorry to come bacj and bother again, but I'm trying to run cmake after cding into the build folder we made, but I'm getting an error for no cmake command being found. Is that something I also must install?

 

[uyjulian]

Is that something I also must install?

yes

Usually, if you get "command not found" error, you need to install it

 

[Deleted User]

yes

Usually, if you get "command not found" error, you need to install it

Ok cool, ty

 

[stick267]

Ahh yeah, I forgot that you also have to install cmake. sudo apt install cmake should do it.

 

[Deleted User]

no package named xi exists.
sudo apt-get install xi
unable to locate package xi

 

[avattar]

no package named xi exists.
sudo apt-get install xi
unable to locate package xi

try sudo apt install libxi-dev

 

[Deleted User]

try sudo apt install libxi-dev

THat installed, Cmake continued, threw more errors, thought I knew what I was looking for now and just not finding, so fuck it, I give up for the moment. This shit is why I use windows.

 

[avattar]

THat installed, Cmake continued, threw more errors, thought I knew what I was looking for now and just not finding, so fuck it, I give up for the moment. This shit is why I use windows.

Try following the instructions for building regular dolphin on Ubuntu, that's what worked for me: wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Building_Dolphin_on_Linux#16.04_LTS

 

[uyjulian]

THat installed, Cmake continued, threw more errors, thought I knew what I was looking for now and just not finding, so fuck it, I give up for the moment. This shit is why I use windows.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/160897/how-do-i-search-for-available-packages-from-the-command-line

To search for a particular package by name or description:
From the command-line, use:

apt-cache search keyword

where the search keyword can be all or part of a package name or any words used in its description.

For example, apt-cache search proxy includes both these packages:

tinyproxy - A lightweight, non-caching, optionally anonymizing HTTP proxy
tircd - ircd proxy to the twitter API

Note: the list may be long, so you can pipe the output to less to make it scrollable one line or one screen at a time, i.e. apt-cache search something | less.

To get a list of ALL packages
apt-cache search .

 

[bylaws]

I just wanna know, can it run Java minecraft? Why? Because A. Portable Java Minecraft would be great. B. My PC literally can't run it kek.

Also can we run steam and dolphin and all that stuff?

yup

Is there any way to fix RTC shifting in Horizon OS? My Switch now shows a 2035 date even after an Internet time resync

its kinda hard to do, i can turn of rtc in linux but thatll cause that to have wrong date

Has anyone had any issues with their Joy Con sticks being mis-calibrated (specifically the right Joy Con)? My right Joy Con's stick shows as being pushed all the way right in L4T, but it functions normally in Horizon.

View attachment 165328
Screenshot showing the issue. The "Main Stick" (left Joy Con) is fine, but the "C-Stick" (right Joy Con) is pushed all the way to the right by default.

Re-calibrating in Horizon doesn't do anything. I also tried using jstest-gtk to re-calibrate within L4T, and while it makes a difference the calibration is still way off. Any ideas?

yup, fix coming in 2 min

 

[avattar]

Is there any way to fix RTC shifting in Horizon OS? My Switch now shows a 2035 date even after an Internet time resync

Did you ever find a solution?

 

[Deleted User]

https://askubuntu.com/questions/160897/how-do-i-search-for-available-packages-from-the-command-line

The ones that I'm missing don't get found by the search. This is weird. I'm googling for fixes and help and such.
I hate linux sometimes haha
FFmpeg (and it's got a list of sublibraries)
LIBUDEV
libevdev

tried appending -dev to them, still nothing.

I'm sorry sorry folks for the amount of help I'm needing folks, this is embarassing.

 

[stick267]

The ones that I'm missing don't get found by the search. This is weird. I'm googling for fixes and help and such.
I hate linux sometimes haha

Just google them. "How to install xxx on ubuntu".

A lot of them will just be adding "lib" as prefix or "-dev" to the end, or both. For example I got an error that told me I needed "evdev". The actual package name for it was "libevdev-dev".

I should've just wrote down a list of all of the missing dependencies when I was going through it .

 

[bylaws]

The ones that I'm missing don't get found by the search. This is weird. I'm googling for fixes and help and such.
I hate linux sometimes haha
FFmpeg (and it's got a list of sublibraries)
LIBUDEV
libevdev

tried appending -dev to them, still nothing.

I'm sorry sorry folks for the amount of help I'm needing folks, this is embarassing.

dolphin wiki has a list iirc

 

[Deleted User]

GOT IT!
So, just for future folks trying to install

sudo apt install git cmake ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libevdev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libsfml-dev libminiupnpc-dev libmbedtls-dev curl libhidapi-dev libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libbluetooth-dev qt5-default qtbase5-private-dev libudev-dev

this is the command you can copy/paste into terminal to make this.

It's currently compiling on my switch right now