Steam

[vinnywright]

Humm I hadent installed it yet in 16.04 ,,,,,,,, so I did

sudo apt install steam

on launching ,,,,,,,



login



looks good ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,



now to get it pointed to my games

and nvidia ,,,,,,,,,,,

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK104M [GeForce GTX 860M]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 860M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 361.42

VINNY

[MoonRise]

Another FWIW this is the specs and drvr for my graphics card:

[steve7233]

I am glad I looked here before upgrading. I play a loot of games via Steam for Linux and Steam for Windows via PlayOnLinux/wine. I will keep an eye on this thread to see if it gets fixed before risking an update from 15.10.

[Teunis]

nVidia 340 is somewhat old, have a look in the package manager which one is the newest, in your case I believe it's 361.

[MoonRise]

FWIW that is how I installed Steam and it seems to run quite well.

[sithlord48]

have you tried installing steam from the repository.. iirc its in the partner repo

[prosoor]

Steam still doesn't work.

When starting Steam, there is a message:


When starting game from Steam, there is a message:


I have Nvidia Geforce 250 with nvidia-340 340.96 drivers, which I installed with apt-get, not with Driver management since there is a problem with neverending "Collecting information about your system".

dpkg -l nvidia*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================-=============-=============-=====================================
ii nvidia-340 340.96-0ubunt amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.96
un nvidia-common <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-driver-bi <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-legacy-34 <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-libopencl <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-libopencl <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-opencl-ic <none> <none> (no description available)
ii nvidia-opencl-ic 340.96-0ubunt amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
un nvidia-persisten <none> <none> (no description available)
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.2 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 361.42-0ubunt amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graph
un nvidia-settings- <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-vdpau-dri <none> <none> (no description available)


Steam is installed from Steam web site.

dpkg -l steam*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================-=============-=============-=====================================
un steam <none> <none> (no description available)
ii steam-launcher 1.0.0.52 all Launcher for the Steam software distr
un steam64 <none> <none> (no description available)