Steam on Fedora -- Requires 99 i686 packages

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/21/2012 10:17 AM, Phil Meyer wrote:
> On 12/20/2012 04:08 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> In case you missed it (I did), Steam linux beta client is now 
>> available for everyone, and there's a way to get it running on Fedora:
>>
>> # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>> # wget http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam/steam.repo
>> # yum install steam
>
>
> When are major Windows ISVs going to finally get off 32 bit platforms ???
>
> The steam client is 32 bit, and requires 99 32 bit multilib rpms on my 
> system.  I really don't want to junk up my system like that.

You have to install the same ones for Skype/etc, anyway...
I wouldn't call it "junk" - it's just the same open sourced libraries 
you already have installed but in x86 build. Yes, they take up some 
extra space on the drive - but not all that much!