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Re: Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 11:42:49 +0000

I've just checked and Steam works fine in chimaera:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=34103#p34103

Re: Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii

dummy@example.com (vlax) — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 03:51:43 +0000

thanks for resurrecting it

I have kidos who want to play with that and I think I can rerfurbish a laptop to experiment

UnixRocks wrote:

I know this is an old thread. Apologies for resurrecting it.
Does this still work with the latest release of Devuan? I don't use Steam, but have a friend who does and he is sick of dealing with systemd. I want to recommend Devuan, but he won't bite if he can't have his Steam.
Thanks in advance.

Re: Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii

dummy@example.com (UnixRocks) — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:01:04 +0000

I know this is an old thread. Apologies for resurrecting it.

Does this still work with the latest release of Devuan? I don't use Steam, but have a friend who does and he is sick of dealing with systemd. I want to recommend Devuan, but he won't bite if he can't have his Steam.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii

dummy@example.com (0xf4b10) — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 02:12:24 +0000

that did it
thanks

Re: Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii

dummy@example.com (devuser) — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 07:25:54 +0000

I think it's just a matter of setting up multiarch because steam seems to be 32bit only:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
apt-get install steam

You obviously need to have non-free sources enabled as steam isn't exactly open source. In case you are wondering where your steam client ends up: It's at /usr/games/steam. Run this from GUI and it'll install it's files to your home directory. You need to you have OpenGL support available for it to work though (which i guess you have if you plan to use steam).

Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii

dummy@example.com (0xf4b10) — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 03:22:04 +0000

What's the simplest way to do it?
I've made some searches on google and even found that there's a Devuan group on steam but all tutorials I found involves adding a debian repo into sources.list. Anyway, how can I do it?
Thanks in advance.