publicvoit, 3 months ago

Installing #Steam on #Debian stable is not a straight-forward experience for me:

https://paste.grml.org/3652/

Maybe the idea of losing a couple of hours to a computer game was a stupid idea in the first place. 🤷

tripplehelix, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

@publicvoit I always install steam through flatpak. sudo apt install flatpak, flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub <https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo> then flatpak install steam.

It'll install 32bit binaries without needing to enable them on your system, and it'll just work without dependency issues.

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@tripplehelix Thanks for that.

However, I've installed it via Steam but I can't start it. Have a look at the URL I've posted.

tripplehelix, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

@publicvoit If you log out and back in, you'll get the environment variable's sorted.

just run flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam or open it from your system menu, not sure why you added the disable compositing mode option.

Also steam takes a minute to load up, the terminal will show warning messages, of which can be ignored.

tripplehelix, 3 months ago

@publicvoit We good?

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@tripplehelix Sorry, what do you mean?

tripplehelix, 3 months ago

@publicvoit Did it work?

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@tripplehelix Oh, I see.

I don't know. This host rarely reboots because it's also my 24/7 server. I still need to plan for that reboot and this game task is one of the lowest priorities for me right now.

publicvoit, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

@tripplehelix I did a reboot and used your commands and I still get the same error:

bwrap: Can't make symlink at /home/vk/.local: File exists

tripplehelix, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

@publicvoit .local is a directory, what's it trying to write in there that it can't? What version of Linux and Debian are you running?

It seems to be a regular issue when searching online. Never come across it myself, lots of people posting workarounds that aren't good ideas.

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@tripplehelix ~/.local is a standard configuration sub-hierarchy with lots of files from misc tools. I certainly won't delete it.

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@tripplehelix 58GB with 5258 files are within ~/.local/ 😉

tripplehelix, 3 months ago

@publicvoit 58GB?! Why?

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@tripplehelix Among others, GTP4All is using that sub hierarchy to store its rather large LLM files I'm using. 😉

mikagrml, 3 months ago

@publicvoit forgot dpkg --add-architecture i386 ; apt update?

publicvoit, 3 months ago

@mikagrml Ah. Did not know that.

Is that something I actually should do (I assume it's some kind of leaving x86/64bit path for this package) or try to continue installing via Flatpak in order to have some kind of containerization? 🤔

withoutclass, 3 months ago

@publicvoit @mikagrml steam requires 32bit support so if you've not specifically enabled it you'll need to :)

tripplehelix, 3 months ago

@publicvoit Awesome game, you'll definitely enjoy it!

TheSecondVariation, 3 months ago

For Windows games you have to enable compatibility mode.
@publicvoit