How to install steam not using software-center in Ubuntu 16.04?

[SALTY-TRUCK]

Well its pretty eazy, all you need is terminal, official linux steam installer and program named gdebi.
1 install gdebi
terminal command: sudo apt install gdebi-core
2 download official linux steam installer from site (http://store.steampowered.com)
3 type ,,gdebi" to terminal, then find your linux steam installer, drag file to terminal you should get something like this: sudo gdebi '/home/marius/Atsiuntimai/steam_latest.deb' press enter.
have fun.
P.S not all steam games will work, steam client all time will say you use old steam version, for some people sorce games wont run.

[SALTY-TRUCK]

but i found more information about it, it seems i dont have more 5 files, but i dk how they named.

[cedara2]

Did you post your bug on http://launchpad.net ?

[SALTY-TRUCK]

access denied
You don't have permission to access "http://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?" on this server.

[cedara2]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από AZ-EV-PV-ELU:

access denied
You don't have permission to access "http://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?" on this server.

Corrected the link, should work clickypointy style now.

[cedara2]

For your information:

launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/steam/+bug/1562645

official community: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2313587

[SALTY-TRUCK]

yea i know every body have same problems only few dont have them

[BaronKrause]

its weird, software center in 16.04 is borked, it doesn't seem to be able to install third party downloaded .deb packages. Its a known bug.

you can install the package via command line without any other software by running this command from the downloaded install files directory (steam.deb might not be the name of the install file, replace accordingly):

sudo dpkg -i steam.deb

it will then fail because it says it needs dependencies.

then run:

sudo apt-get -f install

that will install all those dependencies it listed.

then you need to re run "sudo dpkg -i steam.deb" and it will succeed now.

that same procedure will work for any .deb you download (like if you want to install a beta or dev version of Chrome)

after all that you will encounter another steam related bug. After its all updated and logged in, every time it logs in you will get a terminal window letting you know its out of date, even though its not. it can just be ignored though.

Only workaround is to uninstall the manually installed Steam and install Steam from the repos (or do it that way first).
BUT, it doesn't show up in software center, for what I can only assume is more bugs, but it will show up when you run "sudo apt-get install steam".

It looks like its an older version, but it doesn't matter because Steam updates itself after install, it does retain the older icons for now though, which is odd but currently its the only error free way to run steam on 16.04.

[ack0329]

for other newbies ...
steam:i386 IS WHAT YOU NEED To INSTALL when looking in Synaptic Package Manager,

(has 64/32 bit support)

[BaronKrause]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ack0329:

for other newbies ...
steam:i386 IS WHAT YOU NEED To INSTALL when looking in Synaptic Package Manager,

(has 64/32 bit support)

All the i386 dependencies had me do a double take the first time I installed it thinking I was installing a package for the wrong arch. Im assuming its like this to ensure you have all proper dependencies for 32bit steam games.

[SALTY-TRUCK]

hm well i may try this install way later, thx for info guys