I am having a bit of a brain freeze here but I would like to install pandoc but I don't want to disable the default steam deck settings to do so even though using pacman on the command line would be way simpler I don't want to fiddle if I don't have to fiddle.

https://pandoc.org/

Can I not just download a binary and point Linux towards it? I know this is a silly question but frustratingly I am more familiar with how you are supposed to do this on windows with the $home variable nonsense.

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[–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

Will disabling the read only system access mess up updates on my Steam Deck?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    No, but anything you change will be undone by the next update. Better to use something like distrobox, that's stored in the home directory.

    You could theoretically download a binary, but you run into the chance of it being compiled against different versions of libraries than on the Steam Deck's system. A statically linked binary would fix that particular issue, though.

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