Steam Frame: Could GitHub CLI be available through pacman? #14623

Hey @EloiStree,

I don't have a Steam Frame to check this on, but I think the target not found error is about CPU architecture. The Steam Frame uses a Snapdragon 8 Series processor, which is ARM64 (Wikipedia). Can you confirm by running uname -m on the device? I'd expect it to print aarch64.

We (the GitHub CLI team) don't publish the pacman package ourselves. The github-cli package is maintained by the Arch Linux community, and it's only built for x86_64. That's because Arch Linux only supports x86_64.

The Steam Deck and Steam Machine are both x86_64. The Steam Deck uses an AMD Zen 2 CPU, and the Steam Machine uses a Zen 4 CPU. Both of those are x86-64 architectures. Valve's SteamOS Arch mirror only has x86_64 packages, and it does include github-cli (for example, in extra-main). That's why pacman -S github-cli works on those devices. On the Frame, the repos probably don't have an ARM build of github-cli, so pacman can't find it.

It's not an ideal solution but we do already publish Linux ARM64 builds with every release (for example, gh_2.102.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz on the latest release). To install one:

1. Download gh_<version>_linux_arm64.tar.gz from the releases page.
2. Extract it and copy bin/gh into ~/.local/bin. Make sure that directory is on your PATH.
3. Run gh auth login.

As for an official pacman package for the Frame, it's not something we have planned, since we don't maintain the Arch packaging. It would be up to the Arch packagers or Valve to add an ARM build to the repos.

Hope that helps!