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I'm using Scientific Linux 6.4 (as of now) and I'd like to figure out how I can install Steam on it so I can play my favorite game Counter-Strike ))
I head over to Steam Community :: Steam for Linux and found that Latest Steam update is broken (w/ Wine).
Is there a way to do it w/out Wine or is it my only option? How would I go about it? Please advise)
Thanks in advance.
alexus
Posted 2013-12-05T22:21:40.720
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According to the Valve Developer Wiki, steam is avalable for many different Linux distributions, including Fedora, via the RPMfusion repository.
RPM packages are available from RPMFusion for all supported Fedora releases (currently 18, 19 and 20). The package works fine on both i686 and x86_64 systems and already contains support for the S3 Texture compression library for open source drivers (radeon, intel and nouveau). Note: the package is in the process of being pushed to the stable repository, so at the moment you have to install it from the testing repository.
You perform the install by issuing yum -y --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install steam.
Fedora being RedHat-based, it is quite possible that it is compatible. In fact, on the very resource linked on the Valve site, the author states in a comment:
Unfortunately it works only in Fedora, RHEL 6 glibc libraries are too ancient, even when using the Ubuntu Steam Runtime. I will eventually add it to the RHEL 7 RPMFusion repository.
The same Valve page suggests another option, running Steam for Windows under PlayOnLinux. There is a .tar.gz download that runs on all Linux versions, it just needs Python installed.
A note states Steam needs the Tahome truetype font, and to install it it suggests either
copying it from your windows pc to a flash drive and then putting it in a hidden folder (on your linux pc) named .fonts (you may have to make the folder0 in your root directory
or
installed using winetricks with the command
winetricks tahoma
That Brazilian Guy
Posted 2013-12-05T22:21:40.720
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You can run Steam client on EL6 using Ubuntu's eglibc 2.15 (hint: LD_LIBRARY_PATH). It is similar solution to that used in Google Chrome installer for EL6 (install_chrome.sh). Check this out: http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=2287&st=0&#entry17620
scx
Posted 2013-12-05T22:21:40.720
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This worked for me:
https://github.com/xvitaly/steamrpm
Note: I did not follow step one (that did not work) but 2 to 7. That made it. Using CentOS 7.
Dakatine
Posted 2013-12-05T22:21:40.720
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I know Google said similar thing about Chrome browser, yet there are ways to install latest Chrome browser on RHEL6. Is there some sort of hack/workarounds to get Steam on *EL6? – alexus – 2013-12-06T04:34:56.017
@alexus I have expanded my answer – That Brazilian Guy – 2013-12-06T08:40:02.407
1Somehow I think its worth pointing out that RHEL has really old and limited packages. You're likely going to have to add the EPEL repo. I suggest you try it, and then work out what packages you need. In a worst case scenario, you may be able to get or compile missing dependancies, but you need to know what they are. – Journeyman Geek – 2013-12-06T09:09:47.077