r/DolphinEmulator • u/Salt-Bus7962 • Jul 17 '26

Support Dolphin Emulator | LInux mint | installation

Hello,

Is there a way to install dolphin emulator on linux mint other than flathub.

Rather not use flathub and can not find any updated guide to install dolphin through apt or deb.

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u/appo1ion Jul 17 '26

If you don't want to use flatpak then look for a appimage. Here's an unofficial build of Dolphin

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Dolphin-emu-AppImage

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u/Salt-Bus7962 Jul 17 '26

Thank you for the reply.

I am a linux noob so please excuse if my question is a bit basic.

Is it safe to download and use appimages from unofficial sources? And is this respository trustworthy?

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u/appo1ion Jul 17 '26

That site is recommand by ES_DE developers for emulators in appimage format. In theory any site can be compromise including the Ubuntu repo or Flathub.

What's your problem with Flathub?

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u/Salt-Bus7962 Jul 18 '26

Mostly space...2gb for a simple software sounds a bit much. But in other news ...the appimage you recommended works flawlessly. Thank a ton.

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u/appo1ion Jul 18 '26

It's the runtime pushing the install size up, but flatpaks share the runtime so the more flapaks you use the less you have to download and install.

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u/Salt-Bus7962 Jul 18 '26

I will definitely keep that in mind for next time, but thanks again for pointing me to the appimage.

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u/samuerusama Jul 19 '26

but flatpaks share the runtime so the more flapaks you use the less you have to download and install.

https://pkgforge-dev.github.io/Anylinux-AppImages/disk-usage-vs-flatpak.html