Build & install gamescope for fresh-install Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)

gamescope_4_Ubuntu24-04.md

Build & install gamescope for fresh-install Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)

Due to what appears to be dependency issues, the gamescope package isn't avalible for Ubuntu 24.04. So here's a guide on how to build and install gamescope for Ubuntu 24.04

1. Pull latest git of gamescope

$ git clone https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.git

2. Install needed dependencies to build gamescope

$ sudo apt install libbenchmark1.8.3 libdisplay-info1 libevdev-dev libgav1-1 libgudev-1.0-dev libmtdev-dev libseat1 libstb0 libwacom-dev libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxmu-headers libyuv0 libx11-xcb-dev libxres-dev libxmu-dev libseat-dev libinput-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-res0-dev libcap-dev wayland-protocols libvulkan-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev cmake pkg-config meson libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxtst-dev libxkbcommon-dev libdrm-dev libpixman-1-dev libdecor-0-dev glslang-tools libbenchmark-dev libsdl2-dev libglm-dev libeis-dev libavif-dev

3. Build gamescope with meson first

$ meson build/

4. Buid gamescope with ninja

$ ninja -C build/

5. If the ninja build didn't produce any errors, install it to your system.

$ meson install -C build/ --skip-subprojects

3.14.26 breaks building in Ubuntu 24.04 with the wayland-server error, so a revert to 3.14.24 or the last commit before the wlroots update (5e8fddf) is needed to be done first before starting the build.

Here's what I used: git reset 5e8fddf --hard; git clean -fxd; git submodule update --init --force --recursive

Here's a link to the last commit before the wlroots update: ValveSoftware/gamescope@5e8fddf

And here's the breaking commit: ValveSoftware/gamescope@3542c4d

3.14.26 breaks building in Ubuntu 24.04 with the wayland-server error, so a revert to 3.14.24 or the last commit before the wlroots update (5e8fddf) is needed to be done first before starting the build.

Here's what I used: git reset 5e8fddf --hard; git clean -fxd; git submodule update --init --force --recursive

Here's a link to the last commit before the wlroots update: ValveSoftware/gamescope@5e8fddf

And here's the breaking commit: ValveSoftware/gamescope@3542c4d

Thank you so much! I've been trying to install this for days now and that finally worked.

On Ubuntu Server 24.04, you also need these dependencies:
sudo apt install -y xwayland hwdata

git clone https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.git should be git clone https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.git --recursive

Hello, I have installed Kde Neon User Edition (24.04), try everything, it just worked out to install this pack from terminal "Sudo dpkg -i *.deb" has some glitch but it works!

https://github.com/akdor1154/gamescope-pkg/releases/download/v3.12.5-2/gamescope_3.12.5-2_amd64.deb

https://github.com/akdor1154/gamescope-pkg/releases

It is a previous version, but it is what there is U.U Ubuntu 24.04 Derivatives

I'm very new to linux, but wanted to put this here just in case someone else needs it.

After

$ meson build/

I got the following error:

Neither source directory 'build/' nor build directory None contain a build file meson.build.

I had to use this command to get it to work:

cd gamescope

Run-time dependency luajit found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

src/meson.build:124:13: ERROR: Dependency "luajit" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

but package luajit is installed

Run-time dependency luajit found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

src/meson.build:124:13: ERROR: Dependency "luajit" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

but package luajit is installed

This was happening to me too, I think the gamescope repo mistakenly references luajit when it actually refers to lua itself (luajit doesn't even have a pkgconfig file on ubuntu, only on rpm-based distros) so what I did:

1. Install a dev package of lua (sudo apt install liblua5.4-dev)
2. Swap "lua" for "luajit" in the gamescope/src/meson.build file
3. meson setup --wipe build
4. ninja -C build

For resolving the luajit issue I cloned, built and installed the luajit project directly.
https://luajit.org/index.html

1. git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git
2. cd luajit
3. make && make install (make install might need sudo)

Afterwards, meson setup worked fine.

3.14.26 breaks building in Ubuntu 24.04 with the wayland-server error, so a revert to 3.14.24 or the last commit before the wlroots update (5e8fddf) is needed to be done first before starting the build.

Here's what I used: git reset 5e8fddf --hard; git clean -fxd; git submodule update --init --force --recursive

Here's a link to the last commit before the wlroots update: ValveSoftware/gamescope@5e8fddf

And here's the breaking commit: ValveSoftware/gamescope@3542c4d

This solution does not seem to work anymore.

FWIW I have a fork of gamescope which builds under ubuntu24 while still having most of the recent upstream gamescope work. I maintain it sporadically but it's still far ahead of 3.14.26 or 3542c4d . It's at https://github.com/adamdmoss/gamescope-ubuntu24

I spent soo long getting this to build (endless dependencies, manual build of luajit, tweaks of the meson build dependencies) ... and then I realised on 25.04 you can just install the pre-built package: sudo apt install -y gamescope