Hello everyone,
At this week's meeting, Paul and Ryan asked me to work on a short article about the gaming platform Steam as you can now install it as a Flatpak http://flatpak.org app using Flathub http://flathub.org. Unfortunately, I've hit a couple of problems. BTW I understand this isn't Stack Overflow and my rookie mistakes might be a little frustrating!
Anyway, after I'd set up Flatpak/Flathub, I installed Steam using Gnome Software (which appears to be recommended). However, I couldn't run Steam after installation because I was missing some drivers (see screenshot). When I couldn't find the drivers on the internet, I uninstalled Steam and used these instructions https://linuxconfig.org/installing-steam-on-fedora-25-linux to install Steam the normal way to check if it worked. That was fine and, ironically, told me how to fix my driver problem at the same time.
The problem I have now is that I can't install Steam at all using Gnome Software. The install button disappears after I click it, only to reappear a few moments later, and the download % bar doesn't appear at all. It works fine when I install Steam with Flathub at the command line, though.
What I need is someone to check that they can install and run Steam using Flathub and Gnome Software. I then could write the article once I know it works, but, to be fair, I'd feel a bit of douche writing something knowing I couldn't get it to work properly myself!
Apologies for the hassles,
Stu Brady
Hi Stu,
What if you remove Software from the scenario. Can you install steam from flathub using flatpak directly?
flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam
It "works on my computer", but when it comes to Steam, that's hardly a sign of success. What error about drivers are you getting (you reference a screenshot, but I don't see one attached to the email).
On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 12:21 +0900, Stuart Brady wrote:
Hello everyone,
At this week's meeting, Paul and Ryan asked me to work on a short article about the gaming platform Steam as you can now install it as a Flatpak http://flatpak.org app using Flathub http://flathub.org. Unfortunately, I've hit a couple of problems. BTW I understand this isn't Stack Overflow and my rookie mistakes might be a little frustrating!
Anyway, after I'd set up Flatpak/Flathub, I installed Steam using Gnome Software (which appears to be recommended). However, I couldn't run Steam after installation because I was missing some drivers (see screenshot). When I couldn't find the drivers on the internet, I uninstalled Steam and used these instructions https://linuxconfig.org/installing-steam-on-fedora-25-linux to install Steam the normal way to check if it worked. That was fine and, ironically, told me how to fix my driver problem at the same time.
The problem I have now is that I can't install Steam at all using Gnome Software. The install button disappears after I click it, only to reappear a few moments later, and the download % bar doesn't appear at all. It works fine when I install Steam with Flathub at the command line, though.
What I need is someone to check that they can install and run Steam using Flathub and Gnome Software. I then could write the article once I know it works, but, to be fair, I'd feel a bit of douche writing something knowing I couldn't get it to work properly myself!
Apologies for the hassles,
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Hi Link,
Thanks for the reply. I'm glad you could make it work with Gnome Software. I'll give your suggestion a go. Regards the error, it was this:
"You are missing the following 32 bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6."
Stu
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 4:44, Link Dupont link@sub-pop.net wrote:
Hi Stu,
What if you remove Software from the scenario. Can you install steam from flathub using flatpak directly?
flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam
It "works on my computer", but when it comes to Steam, that's hardly a sign of success. What error about drivers are you getting (you reference a screenshot, but I don't see one attached to the email).
On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 12:21 +0900, Stuart Brady wrote:
Hello everyone,
At this week's meeting, Paul and Ryan asked me to work on a short article about the gaming platform Steam as you can now install it as a Flatpak http://flatpak.org app using Flathub http://flathub.org. Unfortunately, I've hit a couple of problems. BTW I understand this isn't Stack Overflow and my rookie mistakes might be a little frustrating!
Anyway, after I'd set up Flatpak/Flathub, I installed Steam using Gnome Software (which appears to be recommended). However, I couldn't run Steam after installation because I was missing some drivers (see screenshot). When I couldn't find the drivers on the internet, I uninstalled Steam and used these instructions https://linuxconfig.org/installing-steam-on-fedora-25-linux to install Steam the normal way to check if it worked. That was fine and, ironically, told me how to fix my driver problem at the same time.
The problem I have now is that I can't install Steam at all using Gnome Software. The install button disappears after I click it, only to reappear a few moments later, and the download % bar doesn't appear at all. It works fine when I install Steam with Flathub at the command line, though.
What I need is someone to check that they can install and run Steam using Flathub and Gnome Software. I then could write the article once I know it works, but, to be fair, I'd feel a bit of douche writing something knowing I couldn't get it to work properly myself!
Apologies for the hassles,
Stu Brady _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@lists.fedoraproject.or g_______________________________________________
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