Installing Syncthing

Libretro Lakka
#1

I have Lakka installed on my Switch, and I would like to install Syncthing. I tried using apt-get through SSH, but got an error that apt-get was not available for LibreELEC. I asked on the LibreELEC forums for help, but was directed here.

Is there any way to install Syncthing? I see that there is a way to install it on LibreELEC, but all of the documentation I’m finding seems to be directed to using the KODI frontend.

This is pretty important for me so that I can sync my saves and ROMs, since I play on a few different platforms.

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#2

I don’t know of any way to install additional software onto Lakka systems. I think if you need additional software you pretty much have to find a more general-purpose distro and just install RetroArch on top of it.

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#3

Okay, I thought that since it was built on top of Linux that it would be possible. Thanks for clarifying.

#4

No worries. Yeah, it’s linux, but it’s stripped down to just enough to run RetroArch, and then most of it is mounted read-only, so it’s very difficult to modify it at all.

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#5

Sorry for the necrobump. Hopefully a year’s not too long to leave this dormant.

I’m a big fan of Syncthing for all my life stuff, and also for my Retroarch stuff. I got inspired by this post and Lakka-LibreELEC #2004 to figure out how to get Syncthing working on Lakka, and I wrote up a HOWTO for the process on my disroot. I’ve tried to explain every step.

In short, it’s possible to install Syncthing on RasPi5 + Lakka 5.0. You will need a golang toolchain on a separate Linux “build host” machine (any architecture), SSH access from there to the Lakka “target host” device, and the ability to edit a couple of text files and run a couple of commands on the Lakka device after it’s deployed.

Syncthing is written in the Go language, which spits out static binaries and comes with a ton of cross-compilation options. Ideal for this role.

If you’re pushing to something other than an aarch64 target, you’ll need to pass in a different architecture at build time.

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