Having issues installing gamescope Linux Mint 22

[bonkie25]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Are you using any gamescope patches or a forked version of gamescope?

• The issue occurs on upstream gamescope without any modifications

Current Behavior

When I was installing gamescope, using the commands in the readme, I got an error saying subprojects/wlroots/meson.build:107:17: ERROR: Dependency 'wayland-server' is required but not found. . I was redirected to a page that said to resolve this I should run this command git reset 5e8fddf --hard; git clean -fxd; git submodule update --init --force --recursive to stop the error and it did seem to work, though it spat out some errors.
install errors.txt
And gamescope ran for a few days and then it made the game freeze on launch or not launch at all, even with the basic command to run gamescope. I've reinstalled both my OS and gamescope multiple times and I get this result without it even loading correctly once.
If something is resolved by updating something specific, please don't close the issue immediately because I'm still struggling with linux so I need to be told how to do that. As far as apt update && apt upgrade is concerned, my pc is up to date.

Steps To Reproduce

1. git clone https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.git --recursive
2. install dependencies
3. git reset 5e8fddf --hard; git clean -fxd; git submodule update --init --force --recursive
4. follow the rest of the install guide from the README
5. run any game with gamescope -- %command% in the launch options on steam

Hardware information

- Distro: Linux Mint 22
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
- Driver Version: Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.2

Software information

- Desktop environment: KDE 5.27.11
- Session type: x11
- Gamescope version: 3.14.24-24-g5e8fddf
- Gamescope launch command(s): gamescope -- %command% 
gamescope -h 1080 -H 1080 -f -b -- %command%

Which gamescope backends have the issue you are reporting?

• Wayland (default for nested gamescope)
• DRM (default for embedded gamescope, i.e. gamescope-session)
• SDL
• OpenVR

Logging, screenshots, or anything else

me installing it:
install errors.txt
running steam through terminal (truncated to not show steam being idle and downloading stuff at the beginning:
steam errors.txt
weird error when running gamescope -- version:
gamescope version error.txt

[bonkie25]

I've switched to the flatpak which I didn't know existed before this and it works. I have a different problem now and so am starting a different issue.