Running Steam on Parrot OS

[HunterHusker]

We use parrot OS for our cyber security club, and so I am really used to it and I love it. Would recommend it to anyone, anyways I have tried to install steam a few different ways. Parrot is a debian type system. I have tried to install it a few different ways. I downloaded a debian install file from the Steam website, and when that didn't work I purged it, and then I tried to apt -get install steam. It installed and I thought it may work, but it didn't I get the same error as before. I obviously did install it right then, but there is something wrong with my system. I will list the result in the terminal below. Thanks for any help you can give me its really appreciated.

Oh yeah I also looked at some other articles and I have tried to install things like libnss-resolve:i386 and a few other things like that. I also installed steam-devices. Now here is the terminal output.

Running Steam on parrot 4.3 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2018-11-03 20:14:25] Startup - updater built Nov 23 2016 01:05:42
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
/home/hunter/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_request_with_fds
./steam.sh: line 444: no match: ssfn*

Thx -Hunter

[x_wing]

Try running steam with: LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1

$ LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 steam

Also, this one could work too:

$ LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libxcb.so.1' steam

[HunterHusker]

Never mind, if you have this problem don't run it from terminal with the steam.sh file. I found it in my mate menu and i clicked and it ran perfectly. Idk why, cuz that is weird, but hey it works so I'm not mad.

[Zyro]

I guess a pure Debian might please you as well and better fit gaming and other general desktop needs.

[Marlock]

quoting myself from previous topics about Parrot and Kali:

Originally posted by Marlock:

Its time for todays "Even Kali developers say its not for daily use, much less for Steam gaming" talk...

Even though Parrot, Kali and such extra-reinforced privacy and security distros look normal on the surface (a common Desktop Environment), under the hood they are setup as a very safe but very locked down environment, not really suitable for daily use.

I'm not joking about Kali devs, they said it themselves on the distro website. And this applies to its derivates.

If you can, I recommend dumping Parrot for some other Linux Distro. For people recently comming to linux, I usually recommend Linux Mint. It is a great choice, easy to use, wonderful design (not just aestethics), well documented, quite self explanatory, similar to windows in what is good on windows. You might want Ubuntu because Valve supports it officially, or you might also want Solus because it has recently taken extra steps to make Steam work flawlessly in their distro.

If you truly need Parrot for safety and privacy issues, well... dont use Steam on it! Its a seriously unnecessary risk since (by design) Steam downloads lots of closed source executables (the games), runs all kinds of statistics about the host system (telemetry), phones home all the time about those data and hosts a lot of runtime libraries that it can use instead of the ones provided by the host system, some newer, some older, some just different, maybe some with security breaches, obviously not under a distro's full control. This makes for a very large extra attack surface for someone trying to breach into you system, and for very easy tracking from intercepted signals.

If you are a reporter, activist, leak source, privacy freak or whatever, just have Steam run from a different PC than the one used for safe comm, thats the best way to go about conciliating gaming with those activities.

Since there has been a lot of people complaing about Steam on Kali a while back (meaning also a lot of people trying to use it for that), could I ask you why/how did you choose Parrot? I'm genuinelly curious about this apparent rise in adoption of hardened privacy distros for common uses... is it your first linux distro?