opi VS scanmem

This is incorrect. It also installs a set list of packages.

Have you looked into OPI? This allows you to easily search and install community packages from the Open Build System similarly to how it is with working with yay on Arch. It very likely does not contain things like git packages or fonts but it can be pretty useful for packages like ckb-next and since it pulls from the OBS it is always guaranteed to be a binary, no compilation necessary

As of this writing, opi performs the following operations behind the curtains (see here for reference):

opi will implement a workaround in https://github.com/openSUSE/opi/pull/120 which will force the ffmpeg version on tumbleweed to be >=5.

OPI is your friend. You don't have to update every day...once a week or so is fine. Set up multiversion for kernels. A lot of times if a vendor offers a Fedora RPM and not openSUSE, the Fedora RPM will work fine. If you are using Nvidia, wait to update kernels... that's all I can think of. Use and update the wiki as needed, it's a good resource, but can get outdated.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's using Packman https://github.com/openSUSE/opi

For more information https://github.com/openSUSE/opi

OPI is also useful for finding other packages that aren't in the regular repos

The easiest way to install software is with OPI, you can also search with Zypper or YaST. Generally, if you can find an RPM file built for Fedora, you can install it on Tumbleweed as well - I'm sure there are exceptions.

As other comments say, this is missing packed unions, which is the best solution I've found while writing a memory editor.

See: https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem/blob/c6045a8677f37a51b976...

Recently, as a personal learning project, I decided to write a small virtual memory scanner PeepingTom, similar in behavior to ScanMem, or Cheat Engine.

Use gameconqueror. It's the easiest solution I could find. GitHub

as the issue states, it is on their roadmap apparently. gc/scanmem on the other hand states they won't: https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem/issues/301

It's not the same, but give scanmem a try. It comes with a GUI program called GameConqueror. Unfortunately it's very limited in comparison to Cheat Engine but it might do what you want!

For Linux there are alternatives such as scanmem, which will also work with Proton games (Windows games running on a compatibility layer on Linux called "Proton"). There are also some additional hints under https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamPlay/comments/g3bhwz/cheat_engine_with_steam_proton_games/ you could look into.

Game Conqueror is a Cheat Engine alternative for Linux, but there are no Flatpak or AppImage.

GameConqueror works for Linux native games as well as games within WINE. Obligatory "please don't use cheats on people in multiplayer unawares" message.

I am trying to install GameConqueror on Tumbleweed. Scanmem is in the official repos which is nice, but GameConqueror is extremely painful. I built from code and nothing worked, so I made this GitHub issue. It still does not work because the link brings me to an installer. Using YaST 1 click installer says error in the package, and there doesn't seems to be more of them to download.