Installer not working

[jonescameron]

Trying to install using the instructions on the main page via the .desktop script, installation just sits at 'Detecting, Updating and Installing GE-Proton...please wait...

It's been half an hour on my second attempt.

[brutus-the-homeschooler]

Having same issue. Did you ever figure out what to do?

Figured it out. Make sure you have decky loader plugged in
https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader

[moraroy]

@brutus-the-homeschooler what was it doing? So I can fix it

[mikeypdev]

For me, installs are failing because I don't have Decky installed - I get an error saying that Decky is not found. I am using the desktop version of NSL.

[moraroy]

@mikeypdev hmmm I might need to fix the logic on that, but theoretically that shouldn't cause any installs to fail? Are you saying absolutely no installs are installed or are you saying they aren't in the steam library?

[mikeypdev]

Ah, my apologies, while I do get the error, installs appear to succeed and show up correctly in the steam library.

My issue is specific to battle.net. I installed in several months ago with NSL, but when I tried to run it today, it failed immediately back to steam. I downloaded the latest NSL, and battle.net is not listed as installed. I tried removing it from steam and re-installing via NSL, but battle.net is still not shown as installed in NSL or steam. So I mistakenly believed that this problem was related to the error message, but other installs succeed fine.

Is there a way to force detect an existing install? Battle.net and Diablo are still there and taking up 80GB somewhere.

[moraroy]

@mikeypdev wow, ok, um well that's good that they are still there, did you select "Separate appids"? Or did you only do the default installation? Meaning one prefix only called NonSteamLaunchers.

[mikeypdev]

I don’t recall, but I must have used separate appids at the time, because I now can see battlenet in its own compatdata folder. (The new installs are in the default NonSteamLaunchers folder) Is there a way to get NSL to see this existing folder? Or should I move the contents over to the NonSteamLaunchers folder?

[moraroy]

@mikeypdev ah I see. That's definitely why, currently in NonSteamLaunchers, the user was only supposed to choose either the default installation or the separate folders for each launcher they download. The script only "sees" the default or all the others only, if that makes sense. As far as fixing it you could try to edit this file. /home/deck/.config/systemd/user/env_vars. Look in here and see if there is any battlenet variables

[mikeypdev]

Thanks for your help, looks like a local issue on my end to investigate. Apologies for diverting the issue re: incorrect Decky error message for desktop install.