Forbidden - You don't have permission to access (trying to install)

[[Linux] BockSaga -our true past-]

I'm trying to install Steam for Linux, clicking "Install Steam Now" from http://store.steampowered.com/about and link points to http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb

All i get is this:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb on this server.

Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at repo.steampowered.com Port 80

It has been like so for many days now. Why is it?

My last post went to off-topic automatically for some reason.

[Alento]

That exact same thing is currently happening to me.
And as expected, the apt-get install steam showed up with the same error

[hk]

I got exactly the same problem.

Solved by doing "sudo apt-get install steam", which I should probably have tried first.

[Alento]

Originally posted by hk:

I got exactly the same problem.

Solved by doing "sudo apt-get install steam", which I should probably have tried first.

tried that, got an "Unable to locate package steam"
So i looked a bit farther around, and found a thread at http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/540744934481465247/ that listed

Originally posted by JR:

Try reviewing the Valve page on the Ubuntu site. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve Full of step by step instructions. I personally installed mine from a terminal session.

Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T ) type the following commands:
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
sudo gdebi steam.deb

If you are more comfortable working in the GUI try the other install options as listed in the Wiki.

tried step one, failure

[Forcen]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/

[eunicotiledônea]

Having the same problem. It's starting to get anoying, I'm trying to install steam for about two days now and still they don't come up with some solution

[Alento]

One thing i noticed is that in the Ubuntu Software Center, they are shutting it down and there is no steam package, which was there a while ago. Do you think that would have to do with this problem?

[Killua Zoldyck]

It's starting to get anoying, I'm trying to install steam for about two days now and still they don't come up with some solution

[eunicotiledônea]

Originally posted by Alento Darkeness:

One thing i noticed is that in the Ubuntu Software Center, they are shutting it down and there is no steam package, which was there a while ago. Do you think that would have to do with this problem?

Yeah I just noticed that too. Maybe some major update on steam client for linux?

[standardsystem]

Same here, on Qiana. I didn't realize that this thread showed up less than a day ago, maybe because of a lot more people downloading it from the steam sale?

[karti]

Hi,

Can confirm that I got the same error but

sudo apt-get install steam

worked fine.

Regards

K

[[Linux] BockSaga -our true past-]

This is not good. Lots of Linux newcomers go to Steam website in attempt to install Steam, and end up with that "Forbidden" -window.

[reallymike]

I am also having this problem. Posting to bump the issue for visibility. The command line process also failed and produced a 403 error.

For now, I was just trying out Linux for the first time. I will just have to jump back to Windows to get back on that sweet summer sale action.

[eLFootman]

Same error here and if I do sudo apt-get install steam, steam crashes on startup

I even tried getting the latest version from:
http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/

but the issue is the same, steam crashes on startup.

[RioS2]

How rude. 403 Forbidden. What kind of a company allows that to happen...

[Kaetemi]

sudo apt-get install steam-launcher
worked for me