Steam won't install

[grasida]

I've installed wine through homebrew on mac os 10.8.3. I'm trying to install steam, and although the installer starts, as soon as I click on "next" on the first page, the window closes and nothing more happens. I'm very new at this, so I don't even know where to start with troubleshooting or what troubleshooting information might be relevant.

I've tried installing steam through winetricks and through wine start SteamInstall.msi but they both have the same problem.

Any ideas on what's going wrong?

[gman104]

Instead of using command line or something else, try using winefile. In terminal, type "winefile" and press enter. In the window that pops up, go File -> Run and then browse for SteamInstall.msi in your Mac files (or the Z:\ drive). It should install flawlessly (after you disable -no-dwrite of course).

[Rosegirt]

Having the same problem. Took your suggestion, had the same results. How do you go about disabling -no-dwrite? There doesn't seem to be much documentation on disabling it.

[Maexel]

Hi Rosegirt,

Follow this link and scroll down to my answer:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19409

There, you'll find a step by step guide about setting up Steam.

For further questions, let me know .

Cheers mate,
Maexel

[Rosegirt]

Alright, Thanks for your help but the problem persists. Checked the wine version- Running 1.6.
Cd'd into downloads
Ran wine start steamInstall.msi -no-dwrite.

The first screen pops up, Then when I hit the next button, the whole thing disappears.
Below is the terminal Output

Shrub:Downloads edwardgordon$ wine start SteamInstall.msi -no-dwrite
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
Shrub:Downloads edwardgordon$ fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.

[Maexel]

Hi Rosegirt,

Don't mix up installation process and running process:

Installing Steam:
wine msiexec /i steamInstall.msi

Running Steam:
wine Steam.exe -no-dwrite

What you need to check, is the right path. The installation package 'steamInstall.msi' is usually in the folder 'Downloads' (logically, where you have downloaded it). So change into folder 'Downloads' before running the command, otherwise the installation package won't be found.
After the installation, you find the Steam.exe program in the folder '.wine' in 'drive_c' 'Program Files' 'Steam'.

Cheers mate ,
Maexel

[Rosegirt]

Again, thank you so much for your help. One more problem.
Again, cd'd into downloads ran wine msiexec /i steamInstall.msi

Same result as before. Window popped up, I clicked next, and the whole thing disappeared.
The error output is down to one line

Shrub:downloads edwardgordon$ wine msiexec /i steamInstall.msi
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.

The question being: How do you implement storage share mode?
Thinking it might be a permissions thing, i sudo'd the command, all to find that "users/edwardgordon/.wine" is not owned by me. Not sure if this is irregular. I attemed to change ownership using "chown edwardgordon .wine" to no effect.

Thoughts?

[Maexel]

Hi Rosegirt,

Not sure what caused this error... Have you compiled wine as administrator? I think you have because when you've checked the version of wine, you've got an answer, right?
Try to run a free, small program like notepad.exe. You can get it over google. Notepad for example hasn't to be installed, just runned with wine.
Another question is: How have you compiled and installed wine? With MacPorts or Homebrew?
In my case, I have installed wine over MacPorts. No probs so far while running Steam...

Cheers mate,
Maexel

[Rosegirt]

Allright, Thanks for your help, I appreciate it a lot. The problem was homebrew. I uninstalled wine on home-brew, reinstalled in on macports, fixed macports up, and solved everything. Ugh... Ah well. I really appritiate it your help!

[Maexel]

Hi Rosegirt,

good to hear that so far Steam now is working and the Compilation of wine with home-brew is malfunctioning. At least one step further...

Lets try to figure out now what causes MedieEval not to run properly...

Cheers mate,
Maexel

[KarmaPaymentPlan]

Hey guys,

I ran into the same problem with the Wine from homebrew. As I installed it in MacPorts it made a check for the XCode add-on for the terminal commands where the homebrew installation did not make that check or apparent I needed it. Maybe that is the issue?

~Chuck

[Rosegirt]

Just an update. Homebrew is the problem. Couldn't get it working. Installed wine with macports, and everything was fixed. It's a bit of work, but it works.