Well, as the title of this article says VALVE I launched the esparadisima last night Closed Beta of your client for GNU / Linux.
The famous Free To Play game is installed with the client, Team Fortress 2, in addition to being available another 25 games ready to try, in addition to including the function Big Picture that allows us to play on our television using a remote (ideal to spend a good afternoon with friends)
At the moment it is only possible to download a .deb package or install it via AUR (if someone knows about more ports, let me know to include the link in this post)
Although it is possible to download it without an invitation, it cannot be entered, but the guys at Web Upd8 have published how to access it, but we will not be able to play. Just create a launcher with the following command:
steam steam://store
For the moment alone 1.000 people among the more than 60.000 registered They can access, but as the client progresses, VALVe will send more invitations until the release of the Public Beta.
Original news from VALVe
Package .deb
List of games available for GNU / Linux
Support page (only for Ubuntu)
Unofficial packages:
Via Let's use Linux
and there is no .rpm package in my case for Fedora? jummm 🙁
Please if there is a .rpm I would appreciate it if you published it or put the official page to download the beta that I do not find in valve where to download the linux client.
thanks friend.
Try the alien
http://lamiradadelreplicante.com/2011/10/20/convertir-deb-a-rpm-con-alien-y-viceversa/
It seems someone has already done them
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam-1.0.0.14-2.fc17.i686.rpm
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam-1.0.0.14-2.fc18.i686.rpm
In a moment I put the links in the post
In chakra it is in the CCR 😉
Thanks for commenting.
I just updated the post with the link to the package :)
The interesting command is:
steam -dev steam: // install / 440
Unfortunately it always cuts out with a "server busy try later"
That would be for being Closed Beta.
Anyway I recommend not to do it, total even if it is downloaded it will not be able to be played
It is only by going around and looking at things, the time will come to play.
It seems it's only Valve's ones that can't be done, I just downloaded the World of Goo and played it without problem, I've also seen some Arches playing Amnesia
I don't play games, but I'm glad about steam. Even if it goes wrong, it will lead to an improvement in the drivers
In fact, it's already happening.
Apart from Intel, Nvidia has announced the incredible improvements in the 310.xx series of its drivers, in fact I installed the beta of this driver and some games are better for me ^^
Take into account that I try to install it in Linux mint but it gives me dependency problems, you have to keep testing.
One question, can all steam games be played on linux ?, or only the ones they want to port? I want to play this http://store.steampowered.com/app/70400/ It looks so cute ^ w ^, although I think most likely not TT_TT
Only those that carry.
VALVe has said that it will carry all its games, another thing is that the rest of the developers follow that path.
Anyway you can always use wine if you can run it (in your case in the APPBD of Wine the latest version of the game comes out as Gold for Wine 1.5.7, but for the version that is not from Steam)
Yes, I know that it comes out gold ... .. but when I install it, I only have sound and a nice black screen, I install in directx and it remains the same, now it seems that it is because of the driver, I tried to install the proprietary driver and it does not install if it is ahead of libgl, which all programs seem to be tied to ._. , so I have no idea what to do 😀 (smile of despair)
the truth is that if that specific game and another called chantelise http://store.steampowered.com/app/70420/ , if they are ported to linux, I buy them just like that, they are the first games that I like in my life! Also, it's worth e_e
Testing the steam beta on GNU / Linux
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