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If you're not in beta, but still want to play around with the client (without games), install Steam and start it like this. wget http://media.steampowered.co
by pdknsk 14y ago
If you're not in beta, but still want to play around with the client (without games), install Steam and start it like this.
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb
steam steam://open/store/ &
This bypasses the beta check (but still requires Steam account).
Next right click the Steam icon in the Unity launcher and pick Store. Pin the icon to directly pick Store next time.
- odiroot 14y agoIt seems i386 only. Is there a way to test this on 64-bit Ubuntu without breaking my packages beyond repair?
- bryanlarsen 14y agoIt appears to work fine on 64 bit with the compatibility libraries. Do an `apt-get -f install` if your `dpkg -i` complains about missing dependencies. And if you're using XMonad, switch to something else first.
- bvdbijl 14y agoThanks, fixing deps did it for me!
- acomar 14y agoWoah, you weren't kidding about switching away from XMonad first. That is the most broken focus switching I've ever seen -- and that's after I figured out why I couldn't click anything in the window.
- Tobu 14y agoWhy can't I click on anything? (tab works, except on the EULA screen) Some sort of hidden window that clashes with sloppy focus?
- Tobu 14y agoAh, it seems like the pointer coordinates are offset from what Steam expects. If I move windows close to the center of the screen, or if I can find resize the window from an offset edge, it works again. With gnome-shell, fwiw.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- sturd 14y agoI found that running the following command helped in running Steam on a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 install; sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
- Munksgaard 14y agoThank you, the 'steam steam://open/store/ &' part fixed some issues i was having with running it in a Virtualbox.
- zfran 14y agoTo then install TF2: steam steam://install/440
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- ninetax 14y agohmmm, I get the message "the steam servers are too busy to handle your request"
- ThomasQue 14y agoIt crashes for me when it tries to prepare the files : /.../Steam/steam.sh : ligne 113 : 31352 Erreur de segmentation ${DEBUGGER} "${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}/${STEAMEXE} "$@"
- Munksgaard 14y agoI can install plenty of games without being in the beta. A lot of indie titles from Humble Bundles are available, and Uplink for one ran perfectly.
- viraptor 14y agoIt seems the only free title (at least on the list I got) is the World of Goo demo. It's available via `steam steam://install/22010` and it works without issues (testing under Arch).
- abrahamsen 14y agoTeam Fortress 2 is free to play.
- Tobu 14y agoFollow the dpkg call by apt-get install steam, obviously (gdebi also works).
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoWhat? That dpkg command installs the package.
- Tobu 14y agodpkg is a low-level command that can only complete the install if the dependencies are already installed. apt-get is a high-level command but doesn't know what to do with a package that it didn't download itself. gdebi has neither limitation.
- pja 14y agoI think you mean apt-get -f install steam which will fix any broken dependencies.