Testing Steam Linux Beta

joost

2012-11-30 7:12:41

Not that I wish to support this highly experimental piece of software, but let me show you how I would try to install the Steam Linux Beta client on Sabayon Linux.

1. You will need to add a custom overlay called steam-overlay

Edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg and add file:///var/lib/layman/my-list.xml to the overlays section. Mind you, it only works if it is tabbed in position right under http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml. (smells like Python nazi stuff to me)

Now you must create /var/lib/layman/my-list.xml and add to this file:

<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>

<repositories version=”1.0″>

   <repo priority=”50″ quality=”experimental” status=”unofficial”>

     <name>steam-overlay</name>

     <description>Gentoo overlay for Valve’s Steam client and Steam-based games</description>

     <homepage>https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay</homepage>

     <owner>

       <email></email>

     </owner>

     <source type=”git”>git://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay.git</source>

   </repo>

</repositories>

If you didn’t have git installed, use Entropy to install it.

2. layman -f -a steam-overlay

3. emerge –sync

4. emerge -av steam-meta

ANY dependency that gets pulled in from Portage you should install using Entropy first until you end up with a list like this:

[ebuild N ] games-util/steam-installer-9999::steam-overlay 1,297 kB
[ebuild N ] games-util/steam-client-meta-9999::steam-overlay USE=”-flash -windows-games” VIDEO_CARDS=”-intel” 0 kB
[ebuild N ] games-util/steam-meta-9999::steam-overlay USE=”installer -testdeps” 0 kB

Remarks :

- Those ebuilds can be broken ( because upstream changes allot causing the manifests to fail )

- We are playing with an experimental binary blob here, it could include code that makes kittens die, so be warned!

More info here:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Steam&redirect=no

https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay

Edit: I had to remanifest and redo the patch for steam since upstream just changed things:

remove-ubuntu-specifics.patch

— usr/bin/steam.orig 2012-11-30 21:04:16.370876939 +0100
+++ usr/bin/steam 2012-11-30 21:09:32.650054985 +0100
@@ -108,27 +108,6 @@ function setup_variables()
fi
}

-function install_extra_packages()
-{
- EXTRA_PACKAGES=”$*”
-
- # Get the list of packages which are already installed
- INSTALLED=”$(dpkg –get-selections $EXTRA_PACKAGES 2>/dev/null | grep “\binstall$” | cut -f1 | sort)”
-
- # compute the list of packages that need to be installed
- NEEDSINSTALL=”$(comm -23 <(echo “$EXTRA_PACKAGES” | tr ‘ ‘ ‘\n’ | sort) <(echo “$INSTALLED”) | xargs ) “
- NEEDSINSTALL=${NEEDSINSTALL## } # remove leading space
-
- if [ "$NEEDSINSTALL" ]; then
- # Call to actually do the work
- MESSAGE=$”Please enter your password to complete the Steam installation.
-
-Steam needs to install these additional packages:
-”$NEEDSINSTALL
- run_sudo “$MESSAGE” apt-get install $NEEDSINSTALL
- fi
-}
-
function install_bootstrap()
{
STEAMDIR=$1
@@ -159,8 +138,6 @@ function install_bootstrap()
# Restore the umask
umask $omask

- # Try and install any extra packages
- install_extra_packages jockey-common python-apt
}

function repair_bootstrap()

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