On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +0000, Miriami wrote: > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember that > on the Steam website, the website says that the requirement of the Steam app > is 'a xxx version *Ubuntu' system'. They might have hardcoded this in the > binary - hopefully just the early development.
Even though it says "ubuntu" in many places, it has been working for me on Debian 12. hobbit:~$ dpkg -l \*steam\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-====================-===============-============-============================================== un steam <none> <none> (no description available) ii steam-devices 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 all Device support for Steam-related hardware ii steam-installer 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 amd64 Valve's Steam digital software delivery system un steam-launcher <none> <none> (no description available) ii steam-libs:amd64 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 amd64 Metapackage for Steam dependencies ii steam-libs:i386 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 i386 Metapackage for Steam dependencies un steam-libs-amd64 <none> <none> (no description available) ii steam-libs-i386:i386 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 i386 Metapackage for 32-bit Steam dependencies hobbit:~$ ls -d .steam/debian-installation/ubuntu* .steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/ .steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/ These directories contain a bunch of shared libs and shell script wrappers and who knows what else, presumably to provide a runtime environment that the Steam binaries are comfortable running in. Fingers crossed that it continues working.
