On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 23:34 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
Do not restart ! LOL.
I just tested Steam on Fedora and steam works well.
Tomorrow I will try Debian Bookworm again and see if any updates have fixed the
issue. I will post back if it starts working.
(PS: I have tried three Debian Bookworm computers, one XFCE and two KDE, all
fail to load Steam)
Thanks for people's comments.
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