Steam for Salix 14.2 (x86_64, 64-bit)

[76561198318720018]

I wrote a short guide for installing Steam on Salix 14.2, but appearantly my account is limited and the guide is only visable to me and my friends.

Well anyway, I will post these shorter instructions here for anyone who might want to know.

First you need to have latest version of Salix installed, get it from:

{LINK REMOVED}http://www.salixos.org

Then you need to install multilibs. This is easy to accomplish by using this shell script:

{LINK REMOVED}https://raw.githubusercontent.com/djemos/install-multilib/master/src/install-multilib

Save it to a file named install.sh, change permissions with "sudo chmod +x install.sh", then run it with "sudo sh ./install.sh salix local".

Next, install or reinstall your graphics drivers. During install select yes if you are asked if you want to install 32-bit libraries.

Finally install Steam by downloading the Slackware package from here:

{LINK REMOVED}http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/steamclient/pkg/14.2/steamclient-1.0.0.51-i386-2alien.tgz

Then write this to install it:

sudo upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new *.t?z

Run Steam from the start menu, it should be located there in the Games section. Steam will update itself the first time you run it.

[bug siins]

are you sure you ment

Originally posted by Surprise!:

sudo upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new *.t?z

did you mean a different file extention? can't say ive seen that one

[gibalsandwich]

They are Bash wildcards. It'll install any file ending in any extension with first character t and last character z.

[bug siins]

Originally posted by gibalsandwich:

They are Bash wildcards. It'll install any file ending in any extension with first character t and last character z.

didn't know you could wildcard extentions lol
e: wait hold on
the * is wildcard
i'm on about the ? in the middle of t and z
last time i checked ? wasnt *

[gibalsandwich]

For a single character.

Edit for clarity: Slackpkg can install packages using several types of compression, but all extensions they use are 3 characters long, start with t and end in z. So ? Means the middle character can be anything and Slackpkg will try install it.

[76561198318720018]

The question mark (?) means there is only one character there while if you have the asterisk (*) there can be one or more characters.

I just copied the command from when I had manually tried to install all the multilib packages earlier. You could use this too if you want:

sudo upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new steamclient-1.0.0.51-i386-2alien.tgz