Alienware Steam Machine Driver Arch Repo

This repo contains build files for the Nvidia drivers for the Alienware Steam Machine for Arch Linux. They are automatically build and hosted as a pacman repository using Github actions. They can be downloaded with pacman.

Note:: This repo is still very much work in progress. Do not expect it to work yet.

Pacman Repository

The pacman repository created from this repo is published to GitHub Pages by the GitHub Action in this repo. TThe repository can be configured in pacman like this at the bottom of /etc/pacman.conf:

[steam-machine]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://sharkwouter.github.io/steam-machine-driver-repo/

For forks or alternative repos, sharkwouter in the url in the Server setting should be replaced with the owner of the fork. When forking, make sure to set the GitHub Pages source to GitHub Actions in the settings of the GitHub repo.

Take a look here to see which packages are available.

Installing packages can be done with:

pacman -Sy steam-machine/package

Replace package with the name of the package.

Building individual packages

Building a single package from a clone of this repository can be useful if you wish to modify it in some way. It can be done by opening a terminal in the directory of the chosen library and running the following:

makepkg -i

This will build and install the package.