Re: Steam on Debian

2013-02-01 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Mark Allums" writes: > Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be > officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly > Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora and some other RPM-based > distros such as OpenSuSE. Slackware, Arch, an

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 31 ian 13, 22:40:35, Claudius Hubig wrote: > - As noted above, I didn't get the second X to recognise my input > devices on startup. Try bind-mounting /dev in the chroot. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailm

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
> From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] > Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be > > officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly > > Debian and direct derivatives, probably

RE: Steam on Debian [mostly SOLVED]

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Renaud Casenave-Péré [mailto:ren...@casenave-pere.fr] > Hi, > > You can follow this tutorial from Sam Hocevar (former DPL) : > http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846939071205530634/ > Following this method, I got Steam partially running. The games that were previously l

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Claudius Hubig wrote: Dear Mark, Mark Allums wrote: Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten the native Steam client running well in Debian? I am running it in an Ubuntu 12.04 schroot (set up with debootstrap), which has the nice side-effect that I can use wh

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread David Guntner
[Oops, accidentally sent this reply directly to Mark (sorry about that!). Resending to the list...] Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be > officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possib

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread David Guntner
Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > You have it the wrong way around. In fact, none of that is me at all. I am > generally aware of the quoting conventions. That is *very* weird then - because the message I was replying to at the time was "From:" your address. Oh well, beats me. :-)

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Frank Lanitz [mailto:fr...@frank.uvena.de] > Am 30.01.2013 23:53, schrieb Mark Allums: > > Is there any word on the eventual ship date of such a thing as installing > > Steam, or any news at all concerning it and Debian? > > From my point fo view you might want to check with folks behind

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] > Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I > > never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the > Ubuntu > > package to install cleanly. Do you

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Mark, Mark Allums wrote: > Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten > the native Steam client running well in Debian? I am running it in an Ubuntu 12.04 schroot (set up with debootstrap), which has the nice side-effect that I can use whatever X drivers I wan

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 30.01.2013 23:53, schrieb Mark Allums: > Is there any word on the eventual ship date of such a thing as installing > Steam, or any news at all concerning it and Debian? From my point fo view you might want to check with folks behind Steam. It's complete non-free software within a beta-status. .

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread David Guntner
Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I > never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu > package to install cleanly. Do you have any tips that you can remember? What > Debian release ar

RE: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Allums
I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu package to install cleanly. Do you have any tips that you can remember? What Debian release are you running? i386 or amd64? I doubt Steam wi

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten > the native Steam client running well in Debian? > > I had it running briefly through a great deal of manual labor, but I changed > my configurations several times, and

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Thore
Am 30.01.2013 23:53, schrieb Mark Allums: Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten the native Steam client running well in Debian? I had it running briefly through a great deal of manual labor, but I changed my configurations several times, and now I am prohibit

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Renaud Casenave-Péré
Hi, You can follow this tutorial from Sam Hocevar (former DPL) : http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846939071205530634/ -- Renaud Casenave-Péré -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Bamford
Hi Mark I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu package to install cleanly. Do you have any tips that you can remember? What Debian release are you running? i386 or amd64? I doubt Steam