Steam on #! Waldorf

RobyIndie · 2013-02-19 17:29:29

I installed it, but I can't understand why I have to run steam in a root terminal, or it says command not found... that's annoying and I don't usually run applications as root user, is there a way to edit the script and make steam work for a normal user? I've seen zachr asking that but I don't see the answer.. could you explain me how you made it work for every user? big_smile

lobo86 · 2013-02-19 21:45:38

RobyIndie wrote:

I installed it, but I can't understand why I have to run steam in a root terminal, or it says command not found... that's annoying and I don't usually run applications as root user, is there a way to edit the script and make steam work for a normal user? I've seen zachr asking that but I don't see the answer.. could you explain me how you made it work for every user?

Yeah, Don't run the script with sudo.

RobyIndie · 2013-02-20 08:34:08

lobo86 wrote:

RobyIndie wrote:
I installed it, but I can't understand why I have to run steam in a root terminal, or it says command not found... that's annoying and I don't usually run applications as root user, is there a way to edit the script and make steam work for a normal user? I've seen zachr asking that but I don't see the answer.. could you explain me how you made it work for every user?
Yeah, Don't run the script with sudo.

I don't think I did actually.... Oh well, I will test again! But how can I remove the existing steam root installation?

EDIT: Solved by removing everything that sounded steam-ish from /root/.local/Share/ (the steam folder and Steam in the applications folder). Then I reinstalled steam with the script wihout using sudo and I created a link in /usr/bin that points to /home/USERNAME/.local/Share/applitcations/Steam

Thanks for the script and enjoy playing! big_smile

Last edited by RobyIndie (2013-02-20 14:40:52)

Tim · 2013-02-22 18:42:12

Steam works great and i really want to thank you for this thread smile its pure awesome!
But i just ran in to a "problem".
When iam in terminal "/home/tim/downloads/gist4231563-45bbf171953630f9b11acec71b8cc6fa70f0abe0/tree/usr/share/doc/steam#
" and entering 'steam' , steam starts and runs just fine.
But i cant enter steam anywhare in my terminal, and in that folder i cant find anything called steam or so, but it works. Its makes me confused. How do i add a shortcut to my 'rightclick menu'?

incogn1to · 2013-02-22 22:46:32

Tim wrote:

Steam works great and i really want to thank you for this thread its pure awesome!
But i just ran in to a "problem".
When iam in terminal "/home/tim/downloads/gist4231563-45bbf171953630f9b11acec71b8cc6fa70f0abe0/tree/usr/share/doc/steam#
" and entering 'steam' , steam starts and runs just fine.
But i cant enter steam anywhare in my terminal, and in that folder i cant find anything called steam or so, but it works. Its makes me confused. How do i add a shortcut to my 'rightclick menu'?

You can add it to menu as

~/.steam/steam/steam_on_debian.sh

because shell file that launches steam is actually located in your home directory.

PS You are welcome smile

Tim · 2013-02-23 09:12:16

In my home folder, /home/tim/.steam/steam_on_debian.sh ,
its just a emty folder.
And when iam trying to add that line or ~/.steam/steam/steam_on_debian.sh im getting this message:
translating from swedish:
cannot find childproccess, , /home/tim/.steam/steam_on_debian.sh, catalog or file do not exist.

I dont get it, what am i missing? Sorry for my bad English monkey

Edit

The only way around i can get this to work is:

When iam in that directory, rightclicking 'open in terminal', enter steam. And steam starts.

Last edited by Tim (2013-02-23 09:34:23)

incogn1to · 2013-02-23 13:01:28

Tim wrote:

In my home folder, /home/tim/.steam/steam_on_debian.sh ,
its just a emty folder.
And when iam trying to add that line or ~/.steam/steam/steam_on_debian.sh im getting this message:
translating from swedish:
cannot find childproccess, , /home/tim/.steam/steam_on_debian.sh, catalog or file do not exist.
I dont get it, what am i missing? Sorry for my bad English

Edit
The only way around i can get this to work is:
http://imup.info/u/data/2013/2/23/13616 … 03-png.png
When iam in that directory, rightclicking 'open in terminal', enter steam. And steam starts.

try

/home/tim/.steam/steam/steam_on_debian.sh

or let us see, what do you have in your .steam folder

ls ~/.steam

Last edited by incogn1to (2013-02-23 13:03:27)

Tim · 2013-02-23 15:21:26

Well in .steam there is nothing at all.

tim@crang:~$ ls ~/.steam
tim@crang:~$

Thats the strange part i guess, as i can se in the script it should be installing in that directory, but it does not.
If i use catfish for searching 'steam' i get this.

There you have everything steamish the cat can find. smile
Thanks for your time

incogn1to · 2013-02-23 22:56:01

Is it possible, that you installed steam as root? It may be located in /root.

Tim · 2013-02-24 08:25:58

i really dont have a clue, my /root folder is almoast emtyp. The only think located there is somthing called destop.
When in desktop this is what i see:
root@crang:~/Desktop# pwd
/root/Desktop
root@crang:~/Desktop# ls
Counter-Strike.desktop

incogn1to · 2013-02-24 09:18:20

is there a /root/.stream folder?
try

ls -a /root/.steam

Tim · 2013-02-24 12:49:00

tim@crang:~$ ls -a /root/.steam

. bin bin64 root sdk64 steam_install_agreement.txt steam.pipe
.. bin32 registry.vdf sdk32 steam steam.pid

edit:

if i:

root@crang:/home/tim# cd ~/.steam
root@crang:~/.steam# steam
Running Steam on debian 7.0 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
....
....
....
....

Steam starts if im in ~/.steam#
as root i guess

edit2:
If im in ~/.steam as root i can open steam. Otherwise i can not.
what i can see, the folder is also empty?
Confused a bit roll

Last edited by Tim (2013-02-24 12:57:30)

incogn1to · 2013-02-24 21:07:55

Tim wrote:

tim@crang:~$ ls -a /root/.steam

. bin bin64 root sdk64 steam_install_agreement.txt steam.pipe
.. bin32 registry.vdf sdk32 steam steam.pid
edit:
if i:
root@crang:/home/tim# cd ~/.steam
root@crang:~/.steam# steam
Running Steam on debian 7.0 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
....
....
....
....
Steam starts if im in ~/.steam#
as root i guess
edit2:
If im in ~/.steam as root i can open steam. Otherwise i can not.
what i can see, the folder is also empty?
Confused a bit

You've installed your steam in your root folder.
So right shortcut in your case will be /root/.steam/steam/steam_on_debian.sh
But I would suggest you to reinstall steam as normal user.

sillysocks · 2013-04-05 20:32:55

Thank you for this script and guide, incogn1to! I have steam running on my Eee PC now. big_smile

I only needed to do steps 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 since I am running 32-bit. Also, just a note: When I typed steam in Terminal, it started to update but then stopped with "fatal error." I closed it down. Then I just typed steam in Terminal again (definition of insanity? haha) and it worked this time!

Only a fraction of the games in my library are available to play on Linux, but hopefully more will be ported over someday.

Orcgo · 2013-04-06 03:39:37

When I try to install the dependencies I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri
E: Unable to locate package libcurl3-gnutls
E: Unable to locate package libogg0
E: Unable to locate package libpixman-1-0
E: Unable to locate package libsdl1.2debian
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libsdl1.2debian'
E: Unable to locate package libtheora0
E: Unable to locate package libvorbis0a
E: Unable to locate package libvorbisenc2
E: Unable to locate package libvorbisfile3
E: Unable to locate package libasound2
E: Unable to locate package libc6
E: Unable to locate package libcairo2
E: Unable to locate package libcups2
E: Unable to locate package libdbus-1-3
E: Unable to locate package libfontconfig1
E: Unable to locate package libfreetype6
E: Unable to locate package libgcc1
E: Unable to locate package libgcrypt11
E: Unable to locate package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0'
E: Unable to locate package libglib2.0-0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libglib2.0-0'
E: Unable to locate package libgtk2.0-0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgtk2.0-0'
E: Unable to locate package libnspr4
E: Unable to locate package libnss3
E: Unable to locate package libopenal1
E: Unable to locate package libpango1.0-0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libpango1.0-0'
E: Unable to locate package libpng12-0
E: Unable to locate package libpulse0
E: Unable to locate package libstdc++6
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libstdc++6'
E: Unable to locate package libx11-6
E: Unable to locate package libxext6
E: Unable to locate package libxfixes3
E: Unable to locate package libxi6
E: Unable to locate package libxrandr2
E: Unable to locate package libxrender1
E: Unable to locate package zlib1g

Am I missing a repo? Still new to linux.

Also, when I tried to run steam w/o all those dependencies, it told me I only needed libc.so.6. Do I need all of them?

Last edited by Orcgo (2013-04-06 03:43:05)

eliezer40 · 2013-04-06 03:58:55

Very nice. Thank you.

Xxiled · 2013-04-09 22:05:42

Amazing! Thanks for this!

stolid · 2013-04-14 21:46:25

I think we may soon be able to apt-get install steam from experimental. big_smile
http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/steam.html

Last edited by stolid (2013-04-14 21:46:48)

incogn1to · 2013-05-17 19:42:29

If you encountered problems launching steam after latest updates just edit

~/.local/share/Steam/debian_bin/steam

and change it to:

#!/bin/sh
exec "~/.steam/steam/steam.sh" ""

Last edited by incogn1to (2013-05-18 20:49:29)

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