Steam on Gentoo

[Rix]

I can happily say I have gotten Steam to work under Gentoo Linux. To anybody out there who could not get it working or knows how to use Gentoo but use something like Ubuntu to play Steam games this applies to you.

Firstly make sure you've done a full system update and make sure you have your graphics drivers installed.

Next go and grab core-fonts by emerging media-fonts/corefonts and once that's done type xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ *All of these commands except for the emerge should be done from your normal user.

Next grab the latest steam tar.gz from
http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/ and untar it.

Now you should be able to simply type ./steam and you should see Steam launch. I've found that sometimes however that when I go to launch steam it does not work correctly unless I do this.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib" ~/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh

Of course that command above is for Nvidia users only and below for ATI.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib" ~/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh

If you have any issues add a comment here and I'll try to help you out as much as I can.

[Stupendous Man]

I can confirm that Steam runs perfectly on Gentoo, I've been running it since the beginning when it was Beta. I currently have some 78 Linux games, all running perfectly well on Gentoo.
When launching Steam, I use the following:
STEAM_RUNTIME=1 STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 steam

[nai|s]

Running Steam on gentoo amd64 using layman steam-overlay; simplifies installation and launch. All Linux games are fully functional.