Steam Can Now Be Repackaged In Linux Distributions

[d2kx]

Non-Debian distributions should use the new .tar.gz: http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/a..._latest.tar.gz

[Gps4l]

Seems a little out dated in Arch [multilib] the latest version is 1.0.0.25 not 22.

I have not tried nor tested this link.

Steam is working fine though, I installed steam when it still was on the open build service, from opensuse.

Then last week updated it, with the installer script, which is no longer available.

Because I have nothing to do with the making of the rpm, I have no idea why an older version of Arch is used.

I am just a openSUSE user, who noticed nobody was talking with Valve, so I stepped in and solved that.

[Kano]

@DeepDayze

For systems with older libc6 just run my script as root + user, if you use libc6 from experimental only as root:

http://kanotix.com/files/fix/install-steam-wheezy.sh

I wrote the first version of this script as soon as it was discovered that you don't need a beta account to use steam I even packaged fglrx-legacy 13.1 and fglrx 13.2 beta 3 for Kanotix Dragonfire... of course with full kernel 3.8 support.

[blackout23]

There were some concern with openSUSE too, but I managed to bring the right people form SUSE (not openSUSE) and Valve together.

The rpm for opensuse has returned:

http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam

Seems a little out dated in Arch [multilib] the latest version is 1.0.0.25 not 22.

[DeepDayze]

Now if Debian takes this it should go into the non-free repo..would be great if a .deb is provided too

[Gps4l]

There were some concern with openSUSE too, but I managed to bring the right people form SUSE (not openSUSE) and Valve together.

The rpm for opensuse has returned:

http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam

[89c51]

There's been some issues with the Steam client in terms of automation. I haven't checked in a couple weeks though to see if the issues I hit were resolved. Basically, Steam wouldn't exit cleanly after test execution.

JUST DO IT. Even if it means doing it manually



I am really curious to see how it runs with the open drivers.

[Michael]

I miss some benchmarks. Michael, you're still not allowed to post them, or are you waiting on something else?

There's been some issues with the Steam client in terms of automation. I haven't checked in a couple weeks though to see if the issues I hit were resolved. Basically, Steam wouldn't exit cleanly after test execution.

[[Knuckles]]

I miss some benchmarks. Michael, you're still not allowed to post them, or are you waiting on something else?

[tweak42]

I'm not so impressed with the number of titles available but excited that steam client developement is progressing nicely.