Steam loading my profile and dying

sitek8 · Post by **sitek8** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:05 am

Hello,

Ubuntu newb here. I loaded some games onto my laptop that has a fresh copy of Ubuntu 11.04 and they worked flawlessly with wine. I am now trying to get steam to work. I downloaded it through their website and opened the file through wine/winetricks and it will update and log in to my account, but once it logs in it just closes. No ghost window, update tab or anything. I've uninstalled/reinstalled multiple times and I don't know exactly what is going on with it. I have the beta version of wine if that makes a difference. I could always try the "stable" version. Any help would be great : )

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:33 am

Le 09/07/11 Ã 00:05, sitek8 a tapotÃ© :

... and it will update and log in to my account,
but once it logs in it just closes.

Install corefonts packages, see bug 22751.

Bob Wya · Post by **Bob Wya** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:00 pm

Just make sure you install it correctly:

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winetricks steam

or get the dependencies manually first and install manually:

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winetricks corefonts allfonts tahoma
cd ~/Downloads
wine msiexec -i /Steaminstaller.msi

Please also note that winetricks will setup the Steam client in it's own WINEPREFIX (~/.share/winprefixes/steam - I think from memory) - this will cause problems if you don't have that environment variable set properly and try to launch the Steam client manually from the commandline.

Have you checked out the AppDB page for the Steam client?

Some info on there is a bit out of date (I haven't had time to update it). With Wine 1.3.22(+) almost all of the client features work (including - I've been informed - in-client game purchases). I haven't tested the game overlay/chat features (but I gather this does work for some folks - dependent on their GPU and drivers I guess). I think the microphone input for Steam chat maybe a bit broken...

Bob