A collection of scripts I use to automate installation of some components and also just some general notes on installing and setting up things I use regularly.

To run all scripts, simply execute

./install_all

If you want to run the scripts individually, make sure to execute /scripts/initialize_pacman beforehand, to initialize pacman-key and populate it with some trusted keys otherwise you may see this error for install scripts

warning: Public keyring not found; have you run 'pacman-key --init'?
downloading required keys...
error: keyring is not writable
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (could not find or read file)

General Tools & Misc

./scripts/install_xclip

Installs xclip, which is useful for copying and pasting in and out of neovim, mpv with stuff like mpvacious etc.

Installing 7zz

Download the newest version from the website
Run tar -xf <7zz-file-name>.tar.xz
Move 7zz somewhere in your $PATH

External Optical Drives

Should the steam deck fail to recognize an external optical drive, try

sudo modprobe sg

as referenced here and described here.

Japanese Learning

./scripts/enable_jp_locale

Enables the japanese locale on the steamdeck. Useful for learners of japanese that have to interact with e.g. zip archives with japanese characters in file names

LANG=ja_JP 7zz x <zip-archive>

OCR

Installing YomiNinja

Download the latest YomiNinja AppImage and run it. See also ./scripts/install_yomininja

Installing Game2text

Running the Windows Build Via Bottles

Game2text can be used via bottles.

Install bottles from the Software Center
Download Game2text for windows
Unzip Game2text 7zz x win-game2text.zip
Setup a bottle optimized for gaming
Run Game2text inside the bottle you just created

Building Game2text From Source on SteamOS

See: Game2Text

Install the prerequisites

# This will install tesseract and data for horizontal and vertical japanese
./scripts/game2text/install_tesseract_jpn
# This will install virtualenv which we will need for building Game2text from source
./scipts/game2text/install_virtualenv
# This will install the prerequisites to build Game2text
sudo steamos-readonly disable
sudo pacman base-devel glibc linux-api-headers zlib cmake python3 gcc nodejs npm libffi openssl rust tk tcl
sudo steamos-readonly enable

Clone Game2text and prepare its directory contents for building

git clone https://github.com/mathewthe2/Game2Text.git
cd Game2Text
virtualenv venv --python='/usr/bin/python'
source venv/bin/activate
pip install virtualenv

Important

Before continuing

Replace == with >= for the versions in requirements.py

In config.ini replace browser = default with browser = chromium. See: https://game2text.com/faq/switch-browser/

pip install -r requirements.txt
deactivate

You can now run Game2text natively in Game2Text/ via

source venv/bin/activate
python game2text.py
deactivate

Run the following to build a distributable binary with PyInstaller

rm -rf build dist
source venv/bin/activate
python -m eel game2text.py web \
--windowed \
--onefile --noconsole \
--icon "public/icon.icns" \
--add-data "logs/images/temp.png:logs/images" \
--add-data "logs/text:logs/text" \
--add-data "anki:anki/" \
--add-data "resources/dictionaries:resources/dictionaries/" \
--add-data "config.ini:."
deactivate

Afterwards, you can find the executable under /dist

Installing MPV and mpvacious

Install MPV through the Software Center
Follow any of the tutorials out there to setup MPV and mpvacious exactly like you want. I believe the one by Matt vs Japan was the one I used as starting point.

Japanese Input

You can use Fcitx5 and mozc Fcitx5 from the Software Center for japanese input.

Anki

Anki is available from the Software Center.

Logseq

Logseq is available from the Software Center.

Development

./scripts/install_lein

Installs Leiningen for clojure development. I suggest combining this with installing java via SDKMAN.

./scripts/install_neovim

Installs neovim in ${HOME}/bin/nvim. By default the nightly version is chosen. You may want to install this via distrobox in a dedicated development container.

./scripts/install_podman-compose

Installs aardvark-dns and podman-compose for support of docker-compose files.