Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. I tried installing Dolphin by using "sudo apt install dolphin-emu" and it gave me Dolphin version "5.0+dfsg-6build1"

However, I don't think this is the latest version, because I know Dolphin has Vulkan support, and my install only has OpenGL as an option.

On the download page: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

there are no Linux binaries, but there is a link to this wiki page: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?t...hin#Ubuntu

Adding the repo on that wiki doesn't work, there are no packages for Focal, and it looks like the PPA hasn't been updated in a very long time: https://launchpad.net/%7Edolphin-emu/+ar.../+packages

How am I supposed to install the latest version of Dolphin? Will the PPA ever be updated? Will the download page be updated? Will the wiki ever have more updated instructions?

dolphin-emu is the stable build, which didn't have vulkan yet. You could try dolphin-emu-master, but if it still doesn't have Focal, you will need to compile dolphin.

Indeed, the dolphin-emu-master package doesn't exist for Focal.

Why can't the Dolphin developers just update the packages, or just provide a ZIP file of the compiled binaries? Having to compile it manually is an annoying extra step that shouldn't be necessary.

Because the PPA is unofficial and not maintained by us and because the infrastructure changes required to provide compiled binaries directly from our buildbot are far from trivial, thus nobody did it. Also, a compiled binary for Ubuntu wouldn't work on other non-Debian based distros without adopting something along the lines of an AppImage, Flatpak or similar, which would introduce another layer of complexity on a set of already non-trivial infrastructure changes.

(09-24-2020, 07:31 PM)mbc07 Wrote: [ -> ]Because the PPA is unofficial and not maintained by us and because the infrastructure changes required to provide compiled binaries directly from our buildbot are far from trivial, thus nobody did it. Also, a compiled binary for Ubuntu wouldn't work on other non-Debian based distros without adopting something along the lines of an AppImage, Flatpak or similar, which would introduce another layer of complexity on a set of already non-trivial infrastructure changes.

Thank You!