How to Install Citra Nintendo 3DS Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Citra Nintendo 3DS Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Citra is an experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++. This emulator has been developed keeping in mind that it has portability since it has actively maintained compilations for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Citra Nintendo 3DS Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• An active internet connection. You’ll need an internet connection to download the necessary packages and dependencies.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Citra Nintendo 3DS Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish

Step 1. Before diving into the installation process, it’s essential to ensure that your Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system meets the necessary requirements for running Citra emulator. Make sure that your system is up to date by running the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Installing Dependencies.

Once your system is up to date, install the required dependencies and packages by executing the following command:

sudo apt install git cmake make gcc g++ qt5-default libqt5opengl5-dev libsdl2-dev python3-pip libssl-dev libudev-dev qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev

Step 3. Installing Citra Nintendo 3DS Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04.

By default, Citra is not available on Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Now run the following command below to add the official RetroGames PPA repository to your Ubuntu system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/retrogames

After the repository is enabled, now install the latest stable version of LibreOffice using the below command:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install citra

Step 4. Accessing Citra Nintendo Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04.

Once successfully installed on your Ubuntu system, run the following path on your desktop to open the path: Activities -> Show Applications -> Citra.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Citra. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Citra Nintendo Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Citra website.