Oh shit. Thanks!

OK so I remembered. Downloaded and extracted it. Not a tool I’m familiar with but it worked fine first time. It’s command line so I opened up a command prompt and got this output (snipped a bit as the output was long):

(deck@steamdeck ~)$ cd Downloads/pandoc-3.9.0.2/bin/
(deck@steamdeck bin)$ ./pandoc --help
pandoc [OPTIONS] [FILES]
  -f FORMAT, -r FORMAT  --from=FORMAT, --read=FORMAT                                          
  -t FORMAT, -w FORMAT  --to=FORMAT, --write=FORMAT                                           
  -o FILE               --output=FILE     
  etc......

Does that help?

I see you’re coming from windows so how comfortable are you with the command line? I see someone else mentioned that there is a frontend available which might be more useful to you if the answer is “not very”.

FYI tab is your friend on the command line as it will autofill stuff for you. So I didn’t actually type “cd Downloads/pandoc-3.9.0.2/bin/” I just typed cd Down (tab) p (tab) and it filled it to “cd Downloads/pandoc-3.9.0.2/”

edit: The ./ is essential once you’re in the directory when you’re running stuff this way. It essentially means “in this directory, run …”. Otherwise the shell will just look in your $PATH directories list and not find “pandoc” anywhere in it. You can add “.” to your $PATH to avoid this but it’s not there by default on the deck.

Mine is:

(deck@steamdeck bin)$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

Last thing - I know you weren’t confident picking the right package to download. For binaries you’re always looking for stuff with “linux-amd64” or similar in the name for the deck.

There’s also a cool little community that you might like called “Linux Upskill Challenge” which you can find at:

[email protected]

It brings you through basics on a day by day basis and on to slightly more advanced stuff as you go.

Righto. I’ll download it in the morning and get back to you with specifics.

If you haven’t heard from me in 12 hours I’ve forgotten so give me a nudge please. Eyes closing here as it’s very late. :)

Not at my deck right now as it’s late here but they do provide a statically linked binary on their download page which should be all you need.

The one you want is:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/3.9.0.2/pandoc-3.9.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Download that and extract it somewhere / anywhere and you should be able to run it directly.

You may need to add “execute” permissions to it after extraction but probably not.

Edit: if you’ve any troubles give me a poke and I’ll get you exact instructions in the morning here.

You’re not going to believe this but someone else commented above that it might be the HDMI cable or monitor and unbelievably they were correct. Ping immediately restored once I unplugged it then went bad again when I replugged.

I’ve rotated the deck 90 degrees and it’s a lot better.

Thanks. I can’t see it in the KDE settings but will give that a whirl.

It’s WiFi, 3rd party dock (but deck WiFi), ISP router which is unaffected on other devices, OS is right up to date.

I did reboot the ISP router just before posting and the issue still persisted until I rebooted the deck at which point it was gone.

edit: It’s gone to shit again. I got a network analyzer on my phone and ping is clean as a whistle on it while the deck is averaging 400ms.

They were so good though.