• @[email protected]English
    1•3 months ago

    I haven’t tried any of the other versions in a while, mostly because it takes forever to install, but I can do that. I’ll point out that this issue has been going on for years, and I had issues with all variants of steam I’ve tried before.

    I’ll download steam a few other times from various package managers to see if any of them work now that some time has passed. In particular, I’ll try rpm-ostree layering, docker, and nix.

    (edit) I’ve tried installing steam a few different ways. First, I tried installing with nix. nix profile install nixpkgs#steam resulted in an error about non-free software that couldn’t be bypassed, so I tried devbox global add steam@latest which did work, but only in so much as it installed. It failed to launch steam, never mind any games.

    Then I tried docker, since it’s what I used prior to flatpak. I first ran podman pull ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch-gnome then ujust distrobox bazzite-arch ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch-gnome This functioned well, but had the same exact problems as the flatpak version.

    I was unable to install the rpm-ostree version. Apparently, Bluefin doesn’t include it in the default repositories.

    I did test to see if ‘brew’ had steam in its packages, but unfortunately it didn’t.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      Is this on one of Fedora’s images or on one of uBlue’s images? Regardless, could you specify what exactly we’re dealing with?

        • @[email protected]
          3•3 months ago

          Thanks for the clarification! We actually run very similar systems; I’m on the hardened Bluefin-dx image as per secureblue.

          Regarding Steam, Bazzite -one of Bluefin’s uBlue siblings- actually switched over to RPM Fusion’s Steam due to issues with the Flatpak. EDIT: The former is false. The Deck images have always been on RPM Steam. Only the Desktop images moved to RPM Steam (from Distrobox-Arch) for support consistency reasons. Appreciation goes out to [email protected] for correcting me!

          I don’t know what exactly is the way to go for you. But I can suggest the following possibilities (from own experience):

          • Install RPM Fusion’s Steam through layering with rpm-ostree.
          • Use Steam bundled with Bazzite- Arch; this is what Bazzite used to use in the past.
          • Or (very unconventional) use the Steam bundled with Conty.
          • @[email protected]
            2•3 months ago

            Bazzite lead developer here, we actually never used the flatpak. Our first release had it installed in a distrobox container on the desktop images. Deck images always had RPM Steam because Steam is essentially functioning as a desktop environment there. We moved them both to be RPM for support consistency reasons.

            • @[email protected]
              2•3 months ago

              Thank you so much for correcting me! I’ll edit my earlier post to reflect this! Your work on Bazzite is much appreciated! Thank you!