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by pja 4972 days ago
Ha! After some gruesome hackery, I got it running on the Debian testing release.

A few small bug reports:

1) Your code to check who is in the closed beta is clearly not working :)

2) In the install dialog, asking whether or not to "Create a start menu shortcut to <game X>" is clearly meaningless :)

3) For some reason, Psychonauts is in my library (I own a copy on Windows), but I can't install it. Once past the dialogs, the install complete instantly & the gui believes it to be installed, but (unsurprisingly, since nothing has been downloaded) it won't run. Installing WorldOfGoo works perfectly.

4) You're re-setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH somewhere, which means that I can't actually play any of the games, even though I can install them, because they're finding the wrong libraries.

5) Running the games directly from the command line doesn't work, because they can't find a running steam instance to authenticate against, even though steam is running fine (this might be expected behaviour at this point, even though it works under windows obv.) I suspect this is related to (4): forcibly preloading everything in .steam/bin fixes the linking problem at least.

The Steam GUI seems perfect though: responsive & the look and feel is much the same as the Windows version. Bravo!

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NB. Big Picture mode is lovely: I'd never played with it under windows.
And it works really well with the open source radeon drivers too!