Download games from Linux command line - possible?

[DINJO]

Have pi and wanted to explore whether the game purchased can be downloaded from Linux command line or not I see steam cmd but it's only for servers which I can then transfer to Windows and verify files

[sounds like a wooosh]

You can. It's called SteamCMD https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

You won't be able to run games - nor game servers - on a Raspberry Pi though because of the ARM architecture. Steam programs mostly want 32bit x86 – and often tolerate 64bit architecture.
[Edit]
I am not sure if SteamCMD will run on ARM. Most probably not… I think it contains a x86- binary.

[DINJO]

SteamCMD is for servers how do i download games ?

[sounds like a wooosh]

Цитата допису dinjoshi:

SteamCMD is for servers how do i download games ?

As far as I can see you can download 'Steam apps' with SteamCMD. That should be games as well. 'Servers' – that's afaik because the site focusses on people that want to run dedicated servers on Linux without having to run X and the normal Steam client.

But I don't think you can USE it on a Raspberry. It is Linux there, too – but the given binary is not compatible with the Pi… and there is no open source code to make it work for the ARM architecture (Raspberry Pi).

[Tux9656]

The only way to run Steam on the pi is to run it using qemu to emulate an x86 CPU, but this would be extremely slow on a pi. It would be about the perfomance equivalent of running Steam on a 20+ year old PC.

[DINJO]

Yeah it seems like it's written in 32bit has anyone being successful in running?

[Lq.]

Yeah it seem like its written in 32bit has anyone being successful in running?

[dinosaurus]

ok its good

[Chris11B]

Is there a reason why you want to download the files on the raspberry then transfer to verify on Windows? The raspberry is slower than a desktop to so why is the Pi needed in the first place?

[sounds like a wooosh]

Цитата допису blinken:

Can you run python scripts on the Raspberry Pi?

Thank you for the link. That's interesting!
It should work. Scripts work. Python is part of the name of the Raspberry Pi. :)
SteamCMD on the other hand uses scripts plus somehwhere a binary file…

@Chris(Arch) I am not addressed, but I can imagine a situation where the internet connection is not great. And one can for example save power and shut the desktop computer down while a small machine like a Pi can still download stuff in the background – day and night.

[Crazy Chicken]

yeah me too

[DINJO]

Цитата допису blinken:

Can you run python scripts on the Raspberry Pi?

If so, maybe you can use PySteamKit to download the games:

https://bitbucket.org/AzuiSleet/pysteamkit/src

Because i have slower connection and dont want to keep my rig on for downloading