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Native Steam under openSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch

33 points by nickporter 14y ago

4ngle 14y ago
Native? This is a guide to installing under wine. Edit: oh duh. Completely skipped over that since I remember this page saying nothing of the sort.
- andor 14y ago
  The native part is in the first subsection: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#Native_Steam_on_Linux_Beta_Client https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#N...
dbbolton 14y ago
I really don't understand why (in terms of number of users) Debian-based wasn't the number 1 priority, let alone why Gentoo was given preference to it.
- benvd 14y ago
  It says "Inofficial ebuilds" under the Gentoo section.
- blaenk 14y ago
  I'm most likely misunderstanding you, but a debian package (though I think geared towards Ubuntu) was the first thing released, in fact a lot of those listed in this wiki page are built _from_ the debian package. http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/
- aw3c2 14y ago
  The linked website is nothing official nor are those builds. I have no idea why this is getting upvoted. Move along. Valve actually focused on Ubuntu, logical choice.
- aidenn0 14y ago
  All of the packages listed there are unofficial. Your question should be "why did a Gentoo user step up and make a package before a Debian user did" The official package is for Ubuntu.
yarrel 14y ago
Source code please.
- frozenport 14y ago
  <script type="text/javascript"> document.write('<blink>Steam Powered</blink>'); </script>
darec1 14y ago
The linked Wiki article is about 4 years old. The section about (inofficial) native clients, on distributions other than Ubuntu, was added.
- deleted 14y ago
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Rudism 14y ago
I installed this on my netbook running Arch last night, really excited because I had steam keys for all of the linux-capable games in the current Humble Bundle. Sadly, the ones I tried all said they're not supported on my platform. bubble.Burst();
- naner 14y ago
  Is your netbook powerful enough to run games?
  - Rudism 14y ago
    I guess now I'll never know...
  - jerf 14y ago
    Netbooks may not be equipped with the latest and greatest 3D, but a lot of indie games are essentially 2D, just using the 3D for compositing. There's no reason those wouldn't work.
    - kevingadd 14y ago
      Unless they need a hardware accelerated OpenGL implementation to run, because they don't have a software renderer?

33 points by nickporter 14y ago

4ngle 14y ago

Native? This is a guide to installing under wine. Edit: oh duh. Completely skipped over that since I remember this page saying nothing of the sort.

andor 14y ago
The native part is in the first subsection: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#Native_Steam_on_Linux_Beta_Client https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#N...

dbbolton 14y ago

I really don't understand why (in terms of number of users) Debian-based wasn't the number 1 priority, let alone why Gentoo was given preference to it.

benvd 14y ago
It says "Inofficial ebuilds" under the Gentoo section.
blaenk 14y ago
I'm most likely misunderstanding you, but a debian package (though I think geared towards Ubuntu) was the first thing released, in fact a lot of those listed in this wiki page are built _from_ the debian package. http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/
aw3c2 14y ago
The linked website is nothing official nor are those builds. I have no idea why this is getting upvoted. Move along. Valve actually focused on Ubuntu, logical choice.
aidenn0 14y ago
All of the packages listed there are unofficial. Your question should be "why did a Gentoo user step up and make a package before a Debian user did" The official package is for Ubuntu.

yarrel 14y ago

Source code please.

frozenport 14y ago
<script type="text/javascript"> document.write('<blink>Steam Powered</blink>'); </script>

darec1 14y ago

The linked Wiki article is about 4 years old. The section about (inofficial) native clients, on distributions other than Ubuntu, was added.

deleted 14y ago
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Rudism 14y ago

I installed this on my netbook running Arch last night, really excited because I had steam keys for all of the linux-capable games in the current Humble Bundle. Sadly, the ones I tried all said they're not supported on my platform. bubble.Burst();

naner 14y ago
Is your netbook powerful enough to run games?
- Rudism 14y ago
  I guess now I'll never know...
- jerf 14y ago
  Netbooks may not be equipped with the latest and greatest 3D, but a lot of indie games are essentially 2D, just using the 3D for compositing. There's no reason those wouldn't work.
  - kevingadd 14y ago
    Unless they need a hardware accelerated OpenGL implementation to run, because they don't have a software renderer?