Setting up Linux version

The following is a guide on how to install the latest stable version of PCSX2 on Linux. If you want to try the latest unstable builds, please refer to this guide here.

Installation

Arch Linux

If you are running 64-bit Arch Linux, you will need to enable access to the multilib repository, so you can obtain 32-bit libraries. You can do this by uncommenting the following lines in /etc/pacman.conf:

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Next, you can simply install PCSX2 using the package manager:

pacman -S pcsx2

Debian/Ubuntu based distros

PCSX2 stable (32-bit)

WARNING: It requires a CPU with SSE2 instructions. If your CPU does not support this instruction set, it does not have enough horsepower to run this emulator.

Default package

1. Install PCSX2: sudo apt-get install pcsx2

Ubuntu 22.04

1. Install PCSX2: sudo apt-get install pcsx2

PPA

1. Gregory's PPA (stable version):

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gregory-hainaut/pcsx2.official.ppa

2. Update repository listings:

   sudo apt-get update

3. Install PCSX2:

   sudo apt-get install pcsx2

Ubuntu 20.04 (error)

1. Gregory's PPA (stable version):

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gregory-hainaut/pcsx2.official.ppa

Err:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gregory-hainaut/pcsx2.official.ppa/ubuntu focal Release

 404  Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]

Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/gregory-hainaut/pcsx2.official.ppa/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

PCSX2 unstable (64-bit)

PPA

1. PCSX2 Daily Builds PPA (development version):

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pcsx2-team/pcsx2-daily

2. Update repository listings:

   sudo apt-get update

3. Install pcsx2-unstable:

   sudo apt-get install pcsx2-unstable

openSUSE

openSUSE users need to add Packman repository. This will add the repo for version 13.2:

zypper ar -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_13.2/ packman 

If using a different version of openSUSE (13.x, Tumbleweed, Factory) please visit Packman

(please only install the i586 package, x86_64 one has problems and so far is unsupported)

zypper install pcsx2.i586

Fedora

You can install PCSX2 from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository.

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1. dnf install pcsx2

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