Its hard to follow up with all the news since all the websites say their own thing. I'm wondering is there is a beta or at least an alpha for Steam for Linux. I saw on youtube how someone starts 2.2 beta, but it seems all the download links are broken. Can someone explain the situation please? Is it because Valve just doesn't want anyone using the program yet?
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Steam Beta is ONLINE!
Wiki on Installing Steam on Ubuntu
Steam Download for Linux (Updated)
Valve Blog (How the Beta will work)
Note - It will not work if you are not registered in Steam (Non-Steam users beware!)
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yeah, You guys are lucky. We ,ati users, suffer alot (black screen) when using steam.– SuhaibSep 8, 2012 at 4:11
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Luis Alvarado, do you mind sending me an e-mail everytime news come up? thanks :) Sep 8, 2012 at 22:17
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Beta Steam can be found here media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb Nov 6, 2012 at 21:40
In addition to Luis Alvarado answer:
A workaround exists to use Steam without beta access.
steam steam://open/friends
Steams friend list will open. Via this menu you can open the main window of Steam.
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works, but none of the games launch including serious sam, left 4 dead 2 and team fortress 1 or 2. i've got them all Nov 11, 2012 at 23:41
Sorry to bump an old question, but the public Beta started yesterday (2012/12/20) as opposed to the private Beta that was going on prior to this week.
Either add the Steam Repo to your apt-sources and run sudo apt-get install steam_latest
or download the .deb manually and install it using dpkg.
Oh, and make sure you report any issues you run into on their GitHub page. You may also want to join Valve's steamrepo mailing list so you get updates as to when Steam needs to be updated.