Dolphin 5.0 Linux?

[Yoshimaster96]

When will Dolphin 5.0 be released on Linux? I wanna netplay with someone...

[Helios]

It is. We just no longer distribute binary packages. Distributing for one version of one distro and then being constrained by silly things when that version of that distro doesn't have what we need in repos is silly.

If you're using Ubuntu, you can use this PPA (not managed by the Dolphin team)

https://launchpad.net/~dolphin-emu/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=yakkety

(dolphin-emu for 5.0 and dolphin-emu-master for dev releases)

Or you can compile it yourself here, and optionally pick specific revisions you want to compile with git

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Building_Dolphin_on_Linux

(note the instructions for checking out 5.0 stable)

[Yoshimaster96]

Well I'm trying to netplay with someone on Windows who has Dolphin 5.0, but I have Dolphin tarball 5.0. I want straight-up 5.0, no tarball, no git.

[JosJuice]

If you want Dolphin to report the exact name "Dolphin 5.0" after being built, you have to use git, unless you want to make some hacks to the version reporting on your own.

(Alternatively, I think you also will be able to netplay if you make the Windows user compile from the tarball )
EDIT: On second thought, I don't think you can build on Windows at all without git.