Installation

Installation Instructions

You can find detailled installation instructions in the respective section in the toplevel README. In particular:

• RetroPie on Linux distros with Debian package system (Ubuntu, RaspiOS, aso.)

• Other unixoid OSes first match the dependencies:

  • Linux distros with Debian package system (Ubuntu, RaspiOS, aso.), without RetroPie
  • Linux distros may also use AppImage builds. Provided for PC and ARM (each 64 Bit) and with or without XDG support. See Releases section on the GitHub repo.
  • For other Linux distributions assure the package dependencies are met for your distro
  • NixOS aficionados are happy with these packages: NixOS
  • macOS users can install the dependencies via brew

After having the dependencies installed proceed with the install script or use the few manual commands.
Last but not least you can also follow these paths:

• Docker use
• Native Windows installation (or use WSL2 with a Linux Distro and follow the Linux instructions above)

Supplementary Scripts

These scripts are not essential to work with Skyscraper, but they may come in handy if you adapt the platform configuration files, documented in the Platform page or want to use the GameBase scraper. You can find an overview of the scripts in the respective README.