Steam Deck – pacman / yay working

pacman / yay unfortunately do not work directly on the Steam deck because the required certificates are not present or trusted.

Make pacman work

sudo steamos-readonly disable
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux

Som installer are needing locales working. I edited /etc/locale.gen to enable UTF 8 and ISO, only uncomment the lines and than start this comman:

sudo locale-gen

You should definitely make sure that the software installed in this way is not installed on the Home partition, as is usually the case with flatpak. With a new installation, these are overwritten.

In addition, you can really break something and possibly prevent the next Steam update or cause an error.