PS5PCEM 0.3.5 includes a native x86-64 runner, GTK 3 launcher and PKG extractor. The Linux port is experimental; Windows game results are not Linux compatibility or performance claims.

• x86-64-v3 processor (AVX2, BMI2, FMA and FSGSBASE).
• Linux 5.11 or newer with FSGSBASE and Syscall User Dispatch available.
• glibc 2.31 or newer, GTK 3, X11/XWayland, Vulkan loader and a Vulkan 1.2 driver.
• PulseAudio or PipeWire's PulseAudio compatibility service for audio.
• curl for the launcher's release check.

The AppImage uses the same system GTK 3, X11, PulseAudio and Vulkan libraries; it does not bundle a graphics driver or glibc. Install these runtime libraries through your distribution first. It can run without FUSE using --appimage-extract-and-run.

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install ./PS5PCEM-0.3.5-linux-x64.deb
# Fedora
sudo dnf install ./PS5PCEM-0.3.5-linux-x64.rpm
# Arch Linux (the .pacman file is a standard zstd-compressed package)
sudo pacman -U ./PS5PCEM-0.3.5-linux-x64.pacman
# AppImage
chmod +x PS5PCEM-0.3.5-linux-x64.AppImage
./PS5PCEM-0.3.5-linux-x64.AppImage

Installed packages add PS5PCEM to the desktop applications menu. The ps5pcem, game-run and pkgextractor commands are available in PATH. Choose a decrypted game directory in the launcher. For direct CLI runs, start game-run from a writable working directory and pass an absolute path to eboot.bin.

Installed packages and AppImages store settings under ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/ps5pcem/ps5pcem.ini and saves, logs and caches under ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/ps5pcem/. Development builds retain their existing writable application directory. ps5pcem --version reports the release; ps5pcem --check-install checks GTK, companion executables and paths without opening a window.

Keyboard input, X11 Vulkan presentation, native guest threads/fibers and PulseAudio output are implemented. Native Sony HID/XInput controller input, rumble and LightBar remain Windows features. Windows Media Foundation video decoding has no equivalent Linux backend yet. Wayland requires XWayland; there is no native Wayland presentation backend. The earlier Linux bring-up reached the Jets 'n' Guns 2 mission screen under WSL2/lavapipe; it does not establish native-driver game performance.

Use Zig 0.16.0:

zig build build-game-run build-launcher build-pkgextractor \
  -Dtarget=x86_64-linux-gnu.2.31 -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
scripts/package-linux.sh zig-out/bin dist /path/to/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage

Packaging requires bash, binutils, FPM, dpkg-deb, rpmbuild, zstd, squashfs-tools and the official AppImage appimagetool. The script retains its temporary staging directory for inspection. Use a Linux filesystem for TMPDIR so package permissions are preserved. Build the Linux packages before running scripts/package-release.ps1; it includes them in the combined SHA256SUMS. No firmware, games, keys, saves or shader caches are packaged.