A tarball for non-Arch distributions. install.sh puts everything under ~/.local/share/rift-s-linux, which SteamVR also sees inside the Steam Linux Runtime container, so the driver needs no SteamVR launch option. Only the udev rule needs root.

The driver, Basalt and their libraries are built in the Steam Runtime sniper SDK (Debian 11, glibc 2.31) and bundle Basalt, oneTBB and a trimmed OpenCV. The Settings app needs webkit2gtk 4.1, which the SDK lacks, so it is built in an Ubuntu 22.04 root (glibc 2.35).

Layout

work/ is bind-mounted at /work in both roots:

src/monado this repository
src/basalt Basalt prepared by packaging/aur/basalt-monado-rifts (makepkg -o)
src/{opencv-4.12.0,oneTBB-2022.2.0,fmt-11.2.0} upstream release tarballs
hostdeps/usr header-only build deps extracted from the Arch packages boost, eigen, vulkan-headers, plasma-wayland-protocols

sysroot/ is com.valvesoftware.SteamRuntime.Sdk-amd64,i386-sniper-sysroot.tar.gz from repo.steampowered.com/steamrt-images-sniper/snapshots/. sdk runs a command in it with bwrap.

The Ubuntu root needs build-essential pkg-config libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev libsoup-3.0-dev libvulkan-dev libwayland-dev glslang-tools python3, rustup, Node 22 and pnpm 10. Ubuntu 22.04 has no glslc package; a wrapper around glslangValidator -V -x that adds the surrounding braces is enough for settings-app/src-tauri/build.rs.

Build

./sdk /work/src/monado/packaging/universal/deps.sh      # once
./sdk /work/src/monado/packaging/universal/build.sh
<ubuntu root> /work/src/monado/packaging/universal/settings.sh
packaging/universal/package.sh work <version>          # host, needs patchelf

The result is work/dist/rift-s-linux-<version>-x86_64.tar.xz. Users extract it and run ./install.sh; ./install.sh --uninstall removes it.