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Keith edited this page Jun 4, 2014 · 16 revisions

Welcome to the Steam-Installer-for-Wheezy wiki!

Installing on 64bit systems

    1. Enable 32bit repos with sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
    1. Update your repo with sudo apt-get update
    1. Install 32bit driver files:

For ATI Cards: libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386

For Nvidia Cards: libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

For Intel Cards: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

Installing Jockey Common

[Method 1] recommended

  • Thanks to testian, jockey-common can be installed easily by:
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get install jockey-common

[Method 2] if for some odd reason you don't trust testian's repo, you can install jockey-common by downloading & executing this script

Issues:

Certain games do not launch with "GLIBC_X.XX not found" error.

Certain games include their own launch script that can change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. These games include: The Swapper and You Have to Win the Game. The fix is quite simple, look around $HOME/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common for the game's content directory. Once you're inside the directory, try to find a launch script, (anything with launch in the name). Open it with a text editor. Look for LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. and replace with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/lib/steam/i386-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/steam/x86_64-linux-gnu/

Kudos to user johnmlang for reporting this issue. See issue #37

Non-english locals causes Steam to crash/not launch

It is a known issue that certain foreign locals can cause Steam to crash and or not launch. This issue can be bypassed by executing LC_ALL=C steam-debian Thanks to user rulet for pointing this out in issue #27

Getting flash to work on 64-bit systems

    1. download the 32-bit .tar.gz from here
    1. open that tar package with your favorite archive manager and extract the file libflashplayer.so
    1. place libflashplayer.so into the directory $HOME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/plugins if the plugins directory doesn't exist, then make it!

If your fonts are broken/gone/ugly

  • Download Steam's fonts from here
  • Extract the contents to $HOME/.fonts/

Viewing screenshots causes crash

  • Simply insert export LD_LIBRARY_PATH= into /usr/bin/xdg-open (see issue #33)
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