Steam problem

[aur0n]

Hello folks,
I've a problem. I just installed Jaunty, and, thanks to Wine, the latest version of Steam.

But, after the installation, it doesn't open. It just stays in processes as "Steam.exe" @ sleeping.

Any solutions?

(I tried running it on both XP and Vista mode)

[Warren Dumortier]

2009/4/26 aur0n <[email protected]>:

Hello folks,
I've a problem. I just installed Jaunty, and, thanks to Wine, the latest version of Steam.

But, after the installation, it doesn't open. It just stays in processes as "Steam.exe" @ sleeping.

Any solutions?

(I tried running it on both XP and Vista mode)

Works fine here, what is your Wine version?

[stimpak]

there's a bug that prevents steam from getting installed atm.

steam works tho if you already had it installed from another version

[Warren Dumortier]

2009/4/27 stimpak <[email protected]>:

there's a bug that prevents steam from getting installed atm.

steam works tho if you already had it installed from another version

Are you sure? It installed yesterday on 1.1.20 here!

[stimpak]

thats what it says here
Steam AppDB

[Warren Dumortier]

2009/4/27 stimpak <[email protected]>:

thats what it says here
Steam AppDB (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1554)

Try 1.1.20, it worked here without any problems.

[gamblor01]

I just reinstalled steam today using wine 1.1.20 and it worked fine. If it helps, I am using The Orange Box DVDs to install. I put the DVDs in the drive and then copied their contents to a directory called orangebox on my desktop, and then launched Steam like this:

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$ cd ~/Desktop/orangebox
$ wine msiexec /i SteamInstall.msi
$ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam
$ wine Steam.exe

You should be able to get it installed the same way (the msiexec command) if you download it from steampowered.com though.

Also, assuming you can get Steam installed, you will need the gecko plugin to be working properly (to simulate IE). You can just run:

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wine iexplore http://winehq.org

If the page displays then you already have the plugin. If not, it will prompt you to install it; just let it installs. Once the page shows up you're all set.

I would say if the install seemed to succeed then you can probably kill the process. After that, try to start it again and Steam may need to update. If it hangs at 26%, try the commands on the appdb page:

Run this from the directory you installed Steam to:

$ nice -n 19 wine Steam.exe

If that doesn't work try this:

$ wine steamTmp.exe SelfUpdate "Steam.exe" 14

If all fails try this before the previous command:

$ rm ClientRegistry.blob