Steam on Linux

Note

This is work in progress and is intended to be a guide for my future self.

Steam is fairly straigt forward to download and install. You can download it here: https://store.steampowered.com/about/download. This guide will focus on installation on a remote Linux machine.

Install and Run Steam

Note

This assumes that you are either physically on the machine where a desktop environment is installed, or your SSH session supports X11 forwarding.

sudo apt install -y gdebi

cd ~/Downloads/
wget https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/client/installer/steam.deb
sudo gdebi steam.deb

steam

If everything worked correctly, steam should open up. Steam may request that certain things be installed. Even when authenticating, it would error out. I had to manually install the dependencies that steam wanted.

# Install whatever dependencies steam wants
sudo apt install steam-libs-amd64:amd64 steam-libs-i386:i386

Now you can open steam with the steam command and download a game. Try streaming the downloaded game from another computer.