Install instruction for Linux, Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro

Ubuntu install instructions:

• You probably need to be in the "input" group, check by opening a terminal and typing: groups, the contents should contain input. If it doesn't, add yourself to that group and restart: sudo usermod -a -G input $USER
• Most of the required things are already installed in ubuntu, but there's some things that you should verify:
• That your desktop environment runs in wayland mode. You can check this by typing echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE in a terminal, it should output: wayland. If it doesn't you need to read up how to change to use wayland instead of x11.
• Make sure to have a vulkan driver installed. You can check if you have vulkan supported by running vulkaninfo. It will give lots of info if supported, or an error if not. You should just need to upgrade your gfx card drivers otherwise.
• Download SlimeVR Wrangler from https://github.com/carl-anders/slimevr-wrangler/releases , choose slimevr-wrangler-ubuntu.zip
• Unzip the file
• Open up a terminal in the folder you unzipped the file, and type the following to run the application:

chmod +x ./slimevr-wrangler
./slimevr-wrangler

(You only have to run the chmod command once, after this you can just run the second command to start it)

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Arch Linux / Manjaro Linux install instructions:

• Install openssl: sudo pacman -S openssl
• You probably need to be in the "input" group, check by opening a terminal and typing: groups, the contents should contain input. If it doesn't, add yourself to that group and restart: sudo usermod -a -G input $USER
• Run your desktop environment in wayland mode. You can check this by typing echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE in a terminal, it should output: wayland. If it doesn't you need to change to a wayland compatible desktop environment and run it in wayland mode.
• Make sure to have a vulkan driver installed. I installed it with sudo pacman -S vulkan-swrast but you can use other drivers too. If your graphics card has special vulkan drivers you should install those instead for better performance. You can check if you have vulkan supported by running vulkaninfo. It will give lots of info if supported, or an error if not.
• Download SlimeVR Wrangler from https://github.com/carl-anders/slimevr-wrangler/releases , choose slimevr-wrangler-ubuntu.zip
• Unzip the file
• Open up a terminal in the folder you unzipped the file, and type the following to run the application:

chmod +x ./slimevr-wrangler
./slimevr-wrangler

(You only have to run the chmod command once)

More info on the Arch wiki about Wayland and Vulkan https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan

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Running in Virtualbox

While not recommended, if you're using running a guest with ubuntu/arch/manjaro I recommend using virtualbox 6.1. Make sure that you have the extension pack installed. Set vram to 128mb, activate 3d acceleration, make sure guest additions are installed. Unfortunately virtualbox 7.0 doesn't seem supported right now.