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steam-overlay

Gentoo overlay for Valve's Steam client and Steam-based games.

Valve only provides a 32-bit version of the client, uses an own update mechanism for the client and games that is not under control of package managers and ships a customized runtime with all precompiled libraries. This overlay provides an ebuild for the steam installer and meta ebuilds as well as patched (multilib) ebuilds from main tree that enable the execution of the client and games with (almost only) system libraries on x86_64 and x86 systems.

Please note: Valve only supports Steam with an enabled steam runtime. If you have problems, enable the runtime with the use flag or start steam with STEAM_RUNTIME=1 steam before reporting a bug at the official bug tracker.

Usage

  • Include this overlay with Layman and the following command layman -a steam
  • Emerge steam-meta ebuild
  • Start the client by executing steam

Troubleshooting Steam

If you have problems, please take a look at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam, Gentoo Forums thread, Arch Wiki and the official bug tracker.

The correspondig bugzilla entry is bug #442176. The official steam repo is here.

Contribute to this overlay

If you want to suggest changes, like new dependencies or game-related stuff, please send a github pull request with explanation/proof why this is necessary, so we can discuss it. Determine correct behavior and dependencies can be tricky, therefore we'd like to discuss and wait for confirmation of others before adding modifications or new ebuilds.