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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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  • On a side note, Steam Linux officially launched last week and this question should probably be closed as Too Localized.
    – Powerlord
    Feb 19, 2013 at 15:36

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Steam Beta is ONLINE!

Wiki on Installing Steam on Ubuntu

Steam Download for Linux (Updated)


Phoronix

Valve Blog (How the Beta will work)

Steam Blog with Announcement

Official Steam Linux Site

Steam Beta DEB Package

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.
    – Suhaib
    Sep 8, 2012 at 4:11
  • which amd card do you have? i got the Radeon HD 4850 Sep 8, 2012 at 12:56
  • Luis Alvarado, do you mind sending me an e-mail everytime news come up? thanks :) Sep 8, 2012 at 22:17
  • Find in me Google+ and I will post news about it friend. Sep 8, 2012 at 22:27
  • Beta Steam can be found here media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
    – OrangeTux
    Nov 6, 2012 at 21:40
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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
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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.

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