Presently (Spring 2020) there is no linux installer for Yuzu. Unfortunately, the earlyaccess channel is only available via the installer. Meaning that in order to get an early access version of the emulator you first need to download the source onto a windows virtual machine, to be built on your linux machine.
This script removes the requirement of using the installer. It downloads the windows version directly from https://api.yuzu-emu.org/, patches it to be compatible with linux, and builds it in a user defined directory.
Note, in order to access the earlyaccess branch follow the instructions on https://yuzu-emu.org/help/early-access/
Before running the script make sure it has permission to execute.
chmod +x ./yuzu-early-access.sh
./yuzu-linux-downloader.sh [-c CHANNEL ] [-d DIRECTORY] LOGIN_TOKEN
- Get your
LOGIN_TOKENfrom https://profile.yuzu-emu.org/
Currently the only CHANNEL is earlyaccess, others can be added in the future. I just don’t know their api endpoints.
DIRECTORY is where the yuzu program will be downloaded and compiled. It Defaults to pwd.
Once installed yuzu can be run via ./$DIRECTORY/$BUILDNAME/build/bin/yuzu. BUILDNAME is dictated by https://api.yuzu-emu.org/
- Implement the mainline and canary channels
- Ask user if they want to download if the file already exists
- Modify to allow for easy automation (check for update every 24 hours and build)
The following can be used to get the latest release browser download for main line.
curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/yuzu-emu/yuzu-mainline/releases/latest" \
|grep "linux-.*xz" \
| tail -1 \
| awk -F ": " '{print $2}' \
| sed 's/\"//g'\