Steam wont open on debian based linux with gnome...

[Bwithnewcast]

I recently converted to linux and i installed steam to see what games i could play but when i pressed the steam icon nothing happend, i installed it from the stem rep.

[SCHISCHKA]

You need to install 32 bit binaries. I don't have a list on me just google "32 bit steam Debian"

[sinkesnnj]

Also try running Steam from terminal, it will print you any errors that might come up..

[vorticalbox]

2 hours ago, sinkesnnj said:

Also try running Steam from terminal, it will print you any errors that might come up..

to do this simply type "steam" into the terminal. 

[tpcs1980]

Pardon me in case I'm misunderstanding, but remember that there are two versions of steam that I am aware of.  One is for Windows, and the other is for Linux.

 

sudo apt-get install steam

 

If you installed the Windows' version, You'll need something like PlayonLinux ( which runs from/with WINE). Cheers

[Bwithnewcast]

7 hours ago, tpcs1980 said:

Pardon me in case I'm misunderstanding, but remember that there are two versions of steam that I am aware of.  One is for Windows, and the other is for Linux.

 

sudo apt-get install steam

 

If you installed the Windows' version, You'll need something like PlayonLinux ( which runs from/with WINE). Cheers

I know used that command... Dont have wine cuz the cryptolocker program and wine replicates windows behavior

[SCHISCHKA]

3 hours ago, Bwithnewcast said:

I know used that command... Dont have wine cuz the cryptolocker program and wine replicates windows behavior

There a video on YouTube showing wanna cry running on wine. It can run and encrypt files but you have to be tricked into executing it, so it won't infect you unless you screw up. 

I have a trick for preventing that.

Put /home on its own partition and mount it with the noexec flag. This way nothing you download can be executed. 

You will have to move the steam library folder to somewhere else like /opt, which is where steam should be putting game files anyway, it puts them in your home folder, I don't know why.

 

did you get steam running?

[Bwithnewcast]

9 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

There a video on YouTube showing wanna cry running on wine. It can run and encrypt files but you have to be tricked into executing it, so it won't infect you unless you screw up. 

I have a trick for preventing that.

Put /home on its own partition and mount it with the noexec flag. This way nothing you download can be executed. 

You will have to move the steam library folder to somewhere else like /opt, which is where steam should be putting game files anyway, it puts them in your home folder, I don't know why.

 

did you get steam running?

Nope... Going to remove one of the gpus in my pc and then install gpu driver