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STEAM on Linux

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Every gaming fan out there knows what STEAM is , for those of you who dont know what
STEAM is. Steam is an online store for games , it just like amazon for games. It contains
hundreds & thousands of games. Here you can purchase & download digital copy of a
game & the license for that game will be attached to your id permanently.

In order to download & play the games from steam, we need to have steam client
installed on our system. It can be easily installed on windows platform, but to install &
use steam on Linux machine is different story. In this tutorial, we will learn to install
steam on linux (CentOS/RHEL & Ubuntu machines). But before we proceed to install
steam on linux, lets discuss the pre-requisites,

( Recommended Read : Installing PlayOnLinux on CentOS& Ubuntu )


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Pre-requisites
To install steam on linux machines , we must fulfill the following

1- We must have EPEL repository enabled on our system for CentOS/RHEL 7. To install
epel repository on the machine, run
$ rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-
8.noarch.rpm

2- Currently steam client is only available with 32 bit support. Since most of us use 64 bit
systems, we must also install 32 bit version of OpenGL libraries. If you are using
proprietary Nvidia/AMD drives, use the following command to install these libraries on
Centos 7,
$ yum install glibc.i686

For Ubuntu, run the following command


$ sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
For those 64 bit system running on Open source drivers, supporting S3 compression
librabry needs to be installed. To do so, run
$ yum install
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/19/Everything/i386/os/libtx
c_dxtn-1.0.0-3.fc19.i686.rpm

Now lets start the installation part of the article,

Install STEAM on CentOS/RHEL 7

We will first install the official repo for steam, since its available for fedora we will use
that. Create a file named steam_fedora19.repo in folder /etc/yum.repos.d/

$ vi /etc/yum.repos.d/steam_fedora19.repo

& add the following content,


[steam_fedora19]
name=Steam RPM packages (and dependencies) for Fedora
baseurl=http://negativo17.org/repos/steam/fedora-19/x86_64/
enabled=0
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

Save file & exit.

Note:This repo is for 64 bit machine. If using 32 bit machine, replace x86_64 with i386
& you are good to go.

Now that we have added the steam repository, we will install steam client with yum,
$ yum enablerepo=steam_fedora19 install steam

Steam client will be available for us to use after the installation has been completed.
Install STEAM client on Ubuntu 16.04

To install STEAM on Ubuntu, we will first add the Multiverse repository on our machine
by executing the following command,
$ sudo apt-get-repository multiverse

Once the repository has been added, we will install steam client,
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install steam

After the installation, an icon for steam will appear on your desktop. Use it to login to
steam & play your favorite games. This completes out tutorial on installing steam on
linux, please feel free to send in your suggestions or queries using the comment box
below.

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