steam client on pclinuxos

[muungwana]

Anybody got steam to run on pclinuxos?

i came across this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/18jmmo/i_finally_got_steam_running_on_debian_testing/c8fcwhg

followed it and fumble my way into getting steam to run on my 32 bit pclinuxos system

here is how the client look like on my system: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8juRKTjN4Q9TXYwM09DOUVVazg/edit?usp=sharing

Starting the client says i am missing the following packages but it seem to start without them,it probably doesnt find them because their names are different in our system or something.The only package we dont have is the jockey-common one.

Package jockey-common needs to be installed
Package python-apt needs to be installed
Package zenity needs to be installed
Package xterm needs to be installed
Package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 needs to be installed
Package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 needs to be installed
Package libc6:i386 needs to be installed

Havent tried to play anything yet

It seem to do what netflix does,the client you download from their website is some sort of an online installer,when you run it,it download the "real package" to "/home/<user>/.steam/root/XYZ12_32/" and some support libraries go in "/home/<user>/.local/share/Steam/XYZ12_32/steam-runtime" where XYZ is the name of the other distro.

The package seem to be self contained and hence at the first glance,it should be possible to have it without putting the entire system in danger.

[ghostbunny]

like Mbantz saaid somewhere here in the forum we need a complete toolchain update to get this running on pclos

[muungwana]

like Mbantz saaid somewhere here in the forum we need a complete toolchain update to get this running on pclos

From what i have seen so far,not really.The installer installs to a user home directory almost all the libraries it needs.A very good fraction of the buntu system libraries get installed to give the steam client a runtime "closed" environment it needs.

The only thing it doesnt seem to do is download glibc library and it dependencies to the "closed" environment together with the rest of the system libraries it downloads and as far as i can tell,there is no reason why they chose not to do so.

The clean thing to do is to wait until glibc is updated and that will probably take a while, a hacky solution that gets steam happy enough to run is possible and doable.How to get it to work without risking the entire system is some of best ways to get a deeper understanding of how linux systems work