{"id":226,"date":"2012-12-20T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:54:09","slug":"steam-on-opensuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/20\/steam-on-opensuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam on openSUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The steam linux beta is now open to everyone. I just installed it on my openSUSE PC. Here’s how.<\/p>\n

Update Andrew Wafaa<\/a> pointed out that there’s an rpm package<\/a> providing a much easier installation option that I could have found myself<\/a> \u00ac_\u00ac<\/strong><\/p>\n

It wasn’t entirely straightforward as there is only an Ubuntu package. These steps are unlikely to work on all setups, but they may help someone. I’m using 64bit openSUSE 12.2<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Add tools repository<\/p>\n

\r\n$ zypper ar http:\/\/download.opensuse.org\/repositories\/utilities\/openSUSE_12.2\/ alien\r\n<\/pre>\n
2. Install alien and steam’s dependencies<\/p>\n
Alien is a tool that can convert debian packages to RPMs.<\/p>\n
\r\n$ zypper in alien libpango-1_0-0-32bit libgtk-2_0-0-32bit  mozilla-nss-32bit  libgcrypt11-32bit  libopenal1-soft-32bit libpulse0-32bit libpng12-0-32bit\r\n<\/pre>\n
3. Download the steam deb package<\/p>\n
\r\n$ wget http:\/\/media.steampowered.com\/client\/installer\/steam.deb\r\n<\/pre>\n
4. Convert steam deb to an rpm <\/p>\n
\r\n$ alien --to-rpm .\/steam.deb \r\n<\/pre>\n
5. Install rpm <\/p>\n
\r\n$ rpm -Uvh .\/steam*.rpm\r\n<\/pre>\n
6. Run steam<\/p>\n
\r\n$ SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam\r\n<\/pre>\n
The SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa was needed for me because I uninstalled pulseaudio because I like being able to play multiple audio streams at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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