Have you thought of a snap package or another similar, retroarch for linux?

[Renetrox]

It is old news and there are packages like flatpack or snap of ubuntu that apparently can bring advantages. I’m just curious. Success!

[hunterk]

Yeah, there’s an appimage discussion and downloads in this thread:

Linux RetroArch runtime for EVERY modern Distro with AppImage

I saw that there is no precompiled Linux executable for RetroArch. I guess it is because of the different Linux Dependencies. But there is a Programm called AppImage http://appimage.org/ which solves the Dependencies problem. In Windows the dependencies are the *.dll files, Linux uses *.so. AppImage combines the Linux RetroArch executable with the required .so files in one Image. RetroArch.AppImage (x64 Architecture only - no installation required, just make the AppImage file executable) downl…

[Twinaphex]

We should be finally ready now for this -

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-with-flatpak/