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[Weekly thread] GNU+Linux help: ask anything! (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Have you tried installing the deb/rpm and seekng if the game works then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I haven't tried any of the other versions in a while, mostly because it takes forever to install, but I can do that. I'll point out that this issue has been going on for years, and I had issues with all variants of steam I've tried before.

I'll download steam a few other times from various package managers to see if any of them work now that some time has passed. In particular, I'll try rpm-ostree layering, docker, and nix.

(edit) I've tried installing steam a few different ways. First, I tried installing with nix. nix profile install nixpkgs#steam resulted in an error about non-free software that couldn't be bypassed, so I tried devbox global add steam@latest which did work, but only in so much as it installed. It failed to launch steam, never mind any games.

Then I tried docker, since it's what I used prior to flatpak. I first ran podman pull ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch-gnome then ujust distrobox bazzite-arch ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch-gnome This functioned well, but had the same exact problems as the flatpak version.

I was unable to install the rpm-ostree version. Apparently, Bluefin doesn't include it in the default repositories.

I did test to see if 'brew' had steam in its packages, but unfortunately it didn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Is this on one of Fedora's images or on one of uBlue's images? Regardless, could you specify what exactly we're dealing with?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm running ublue-os/bluefin-dx:latest It's an offshoot of Silverblue

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the clarification! We actually run very similar systems; I'm on the hardened Bluefin-dx image as per secureblue.

~~Regarding Steam, Bazzite -one of Bluefin's uBlue siblings- actually switched over to RPM Fusion's Steam due to issues with the Flatpak.~~ EDIT: The former is false. The Deck images have always been on RPM Steam. Only the Desktop images moved to RPM Steam (from Distrobox-Arch) for support consistency reasons. Appreciation goes out to [email protected] for correcting me!

I don't know what exactly is the way to go for you. But I can suggest the following possibilities (from own experience):

Install RPM Fusion's Steam through layering with rpm-ostree.
Use Steam bundled with Bazzite- Arch; this is what Bazzite used to use in the past.
Or (very unconventional) use the Steam bundled with Conty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bazzite lead developer here, we actually never used the flatpak. Our first release had it installed in a distrobox container on the desktop images. Deck images always had RPM Steam because Steam is essentially functioning as a desktop environment there. We moved them both to be RPM for support consistency reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you so much for correcting me! I'll edit my earlier post to reflect this! Your work on Bazzite is much appreciated! Thank you!

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