Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load
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.
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