Linux support

[willheisenberg]

nton build -n Quake3Arena -i /home/will/Downloads/Quake-III-Arena-icon.png --sdmc /media/will/SWITCH SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro
Downloading a list of Game Title IDs...
2023-01-26 15:56:08 [I] nton.main : nton version 1.2.0 Copyright (c) 2022-2023 rlaphoenix
2023-01-26 15:56:08 [I] nton.main : https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton
2023-01-26 15:56:08 [I] build : Building!
2023-01-26 15:56:08 [E] build : The NRO path "SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro" does not exist, or is not a file.

Any idea?

[willheisenberg]

nton build -n Quake3Arena -i /home/will/Downloads/Quake-III-Arena-icon.png --sdmc "/media/will/SWITCH SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro"

This is not working as well!

[rlaphoenix]

Hi, the initial error is because you did not encapsulate the sdmc path with quotes. You did that in your next comment, however, you seem to still have issues? What is the error exactly?

I have noticed that you did not supply the path to the NRO still. You still need to supply the path to the NRO. E.g., nton build -n Quake3Arena -i /home/will/Downloads/Quake-III-Arena-icon.png --sdmc "/media/will/SWITCH SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro" /home/will/Downloads/Q3ArenaNX.nro

You are also using --sdmc incorrectly. --sdmc should be specifying the path to the nro relative to the microSD card root. In this case it should be --sdmc /switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro. If /media/will/SWITCH SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro is where you have the NRO file on your PC, then the final correct command would be:

nton build -n Quake3Arena -i /home/will/Downloads/Quake-III-Arena-icon.png --sdmc /switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro "/media/will/SWITCH SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro"

P.S. You shouldn't need to specify your own Icon and Name unless you want to explicitly use a different name and icon than whats in the NRO metadata, or if the NRO does not have Icon data.

[willheisenberg]

Hmmm do you have an solution for that issue what is coming up now:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/nton", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/will/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1130, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/will/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1055, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/will/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1657, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/will/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/home/will/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/nton/main.py", line 103, in build
verification = nstool.verify(path, "nro")
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/nton/nstool.py", line 33, in verify
subprocess.check_output([
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 424, in check_output
return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 505, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1698, in _execute_child
and os.path.dirname(executable)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/posixpath.py", line 152, in dirname
p = os.fspath(p)
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

[rlaphoenix]

What command did you make? At a glance it seems as if the path to the NRO file resolved as nothing.

[willheisenberg]

nton build --sdmc /switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro "/media/will/SWITCH SD/switch/Q3ArenaNX/Q3ArenaNX.nro"

[rlaphoenix]

Did you install all of the dependencies listed in the readme? It sounds like you may not put them next to nton, or did not put them in the PATH Environment Variable.

[willheisenberg]

OK sorry for that. Im feeling a bit unsure about installing these dependencies on my Debian System. When i should have success i will let you know.

[rlaphoenix]

OK sorry for that. Im feeling a bit unsure about installing these dependencies on my Debian System. When i should have success i will let you know.

Yes, unfortunately, I don't think NTON supports Linux as of yet. This is mainly because of the dependencies as you have noticed. nstool is supported on Linux, but hacPack and hacBrewPack do not seem to be. At least there are no Linux binaries officially released for them anyway.

However, there are some old unofficial builds here: https://github.com/The-4n/hacBrewPack/issues/5 but support for them with NTON is not verified. Building for Linux seems possible, but it just seems like the developer is not making any official builds on Linux for them.

Maybe try the older builds and see if they work, if not maybe try see if you can get it compiled yourself by following the instructions in the README.