How to install and run Desura on PCLinuxOS

[Texstar]

Desura is steam like client for Linux to play all kinds of games. (Some games are not free).

Go to www.desura.com and download desura-i686.tar.gz from their download button to your home/yourusername folder if possible.

Open a terminal console like Konsole, LXTerminal or Gnome Terminal etc. This can be found in the PCLinuxOS Menus under More Applications -> Terminals Any terminal will do.

Firefox saves the desura-i686.tar.gz in the Downloads folder so you will need to move it

[texstar@thenudiebar ~]$ mv /home/yourusername/Downloads/desura* /home/yourusername

Now you need to extract the desura-i686.tar.gz with the following command

[texstar@thenudiebar ~]$ tar -xzvf desura-i686.tar.gz

Next cd into the desura folder it created.

[texstar@thenudiebar ~]$ cd desura

Now you can run the program by typing the following

[texstar@thenudiebar desura]$ ./desura

The first time you run it you will need to create an account and verify your email address before you can login. After that you are in like Flynn!

More later...got to get my game on now.

[BMaytum]

Texstar:
Can you report now (a month later) how you're liking Dasura?
I'm curious, given that Valve has recently opened their Linux Steam beta to all (I posted questions about that in a Steam thread here at PCLOS forums).

In any case, Happy Holidays and all the Best to ya in 2013!
-BMaytum

[JohnW_57]

Can you report now (a month later) how you're liking Dasura?

1 year and 1month  (this tip is more then a year old).   

JohnW