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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > g_______________________________________________ > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
