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Steam
Steam is a content delivery system available for GNU/Linux gaming.
Install
In order to install Steam, we must first install app-portage/layman.
Once layman is installed and synced, we must add the gamerlay
repository:
root # layman -a gamerlay root # layman -S
Ok, now we can install steam by running:
root # emerge steam-launcher
install part 2
Make sure your user is in the 'games' group by typing:
root # groups youruser
If not add your user to the 'games' group by typing:
root # usermod -a -G games youruser
Your groups will not update until you log out and log back in again. You can check this by just entering in a terminal
root # groups
and if you just added yourself to the group games it will not appear there. However, if you would type "groups ouruser" like before, then you could see that you already added yourself to that group. Steam will not start properly until you have logged in as a member of the games group.
Steam has its own internal package management system. Portage will not track its files, or games installed. the ebuild simply pulls in the steam installer, to run the steam installer:
user $ /usr/games/bin/steam
The installer will prompt you with several questions, once done running the installer command will load the latest version of steam.
This will also create a desktop entry under ~/Desktop/steam.desktop
Troubleshooting
Text is corrupt or missing
Steam makes heavy usage of the Arial font. A decent Arial font to use is ttf-liberation.
root # emerge liberation-fonts root # eselect fontconfig enable 60-liberation.conf
Steam segfaults after 2nd start!
I do not know much about this behaviour, but I found a workaround. If you saved your password, you need to backup all your games and reset Steam.
user $ mkdir -p ~/backup user $ mv ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps ~/backup user $ steam --reset user $ mv ~/backup ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps
Start Steam again, enter username and password, but do not check "Remember my password", it is the thing that causes all the troubles. You will need to enter password every time you start Steam.
Missing textures (Screen in Dota 2 and other Source games is all red/black!)
Many steam games heavily rely on S3TC compressed textures, which require the libxtc_dxtn library to be compressed with 32bit support:
root # echo 'media-libs/libtxc_dxtn abi_x86_32' >> /etc/portage/package.use root # emerge media-libs/libtxc_dxtn
OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering
This can happen when the latest version of mesa drivers conflict with steam's bundled libstdc++ libraries[1], especially when open source video card drivers are installed.
So that steam does not use its bundled libstdc++ libraries, they may be removed[2]:
root # rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/installed/libstdc++6-4.6-pic_4.6.3-1ubuntu5+srt4_amd64 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/installed/libstdc++6-4.6-pic_4.6.3-1ubuntu5+srt4_amd64.md5 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/installed/libstdc++6_4.8.1-2ubuntu1~12.04+steamrt2+srt1_amd64 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/installed/libstdc++6_4.8.1-2ubuntu1~12.04+steamrt2+srt1_amd64.md5 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++_pic.a && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++_pic.map && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.18 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/share/doc/libstdc++6 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/share/doc/libstdc++6-4.6-pic && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/installed/libstdc++6-4.6-pic_4.6.3-1ubuntu5+srt4_i386 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/installed/libstdc++6-4.6-pic_4.6.3-1ubuntu5+srt4_i386.md5 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/installed/libstdc++6_4.8.1-2ubuntu1~12.04+steamrt2+srt1_i386 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/installed/libstdc++6_4.8.1-2ubuntu1~12.04+steamrt2+srt1_i386.md5 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++_pic.a && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++_pic.map && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.18 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/share/doc/libstdc++6 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/share/doc/libstdc++6-4.6-pic && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime.old/i386/usr/share/doc/libstdc++6
and
root # rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 && rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
Removal
To remove steam, and content in case of corruption:
user $ rm -rf .local/share/Steam user $ rm -rf .Steam
References
[1]: higuita, Ev1l0rd. Problem with installing Steam on Ubuntu 15.04 - Ask Ubuntu, Ask Ubuntu, April 26th, 2015. Retrieved December 29th, 2015.
[2]: altiris. [SOLVED] Steam won't open, libGL errors, Arch Linux Forums, February 18, 2015. Retrieved July 14th, 2015.