Installing the Allegro library.
Has anyone managed to install the Allegro game/multimedia library in Bazzite?
A game I'd like to play requires Allegro 4.4. In other distros it can be installed via apt, but the official Allegro site only has the source. I searched for "allegro 4.4 rpm" to try to find an RPM option, and found one at rpmfind.net but I'm not familiar with that site and I'm not sure if those downloads are trustworthy.
Also, since Allegro is a game dev library, I wonder if it couldn't be included in future releases of Bazzite.
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Solution
distrobox - ubuntu container
Well, wow, that worked like a charm. First time trying BoxBuddy. I installed a Ubuntu container, and at the prompt I installed liballegro4.4 and then ran the game's executable. Game started right up! No sound, but that's a separate issue I can look into. Thank you!
EDIT: I fixed the sound by installing pipewire libraries using
sudo apt install pipewire-audio-client-libraries.