This article describes an installation of the Valve Steam Linux client on Debian 8 Jessie 64bit. The article assumes that you have already installed your VGA drives required to run Steam client. Let’s start with steam client download:
$ wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
Once you have client downloaded install the steam.deb
package. Please not the below command requires root privileges and will show errors due to the dependency problems which we will address next:
# dpkg -i steam.deb Selecting previously unselected package steam-launcher. (Reading database ... 82762 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack steam.deb ... Unpacking steam-launcher (1.0.0.49) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of steam-launcher: steam-launcher depends on curl; however: Package curl is not installed. steam-launcher depends on zenity; however: Package zenity is not installed. dpkg: error processing package steam-launcher (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Errors were encountered while processing: steam-launcher