So just got my computer switched over to Pop! OS.

When I open the Pop Shop, the installers don’t give me an option to change the location of the app installs. I have 4 disks, 2 nvmes, 2 hard disks. I would prefer to install some of my apps to the 2nd nvme, which I have mounted to /Apps. Mainly the games I will play, along with Stream and Lutris.

Would I need to install from the terminal with apt or nala? I installed nala because it looks cleaner, but we’ll see.

  • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Honestly, it’s probably not worth the hassle to try to install system apps elsewhere. Steam and Lutris, on the other hand, can put games on any mounted drive. Install them as normal, and then in Steam, set up a steam library in /Apps. In Lutris, you should have the option to choose where each game is installed each time you install one.

  • Banzai51@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I found a comment on another website that said you have to install Steam/Lutris from the PopOS Deb package and not the flatpak. I know they were installed by flatbak from the Pop OS store. So uninstalled and reinstalled as the Deb package and I can know swap the install directory for games to another drive. One more step down in my Linux switch.

  • ma1w4re@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    You can install any app anywhere by hand. Download binaries, put them anywhere you want for example home/.local/bin and add that location to your PATH. Most package managers install apps system-wide ie somewhere in root.