I got Valve's steam to work on my (older) Linux mint lisa machine without hardly any effort, and I thought I'd share:
If you try to install the steam_latest.deb package from valve on a linux mint distro, you'll notice that dependencies can't be met: the "new" package versions are just not in the repository. This leaves you with a few options:
- Upgrade to a newer version
(this is non-trivial, as explained in other tutorials:)
- Just install the required packages from the maya-distro.
(This last option is what I did. Note that this "meddles" with your existing installation! But since we're only taking about a handful of packages here, and since upgraded packages usually work backward compatible, it was worth taking the chance. (If I messed up, I just would have taken option 1 anyway:))
To do this, follow a few very simple steps:
* Make sure you have gdebi installed (it's what I used here)
* Add briefly a few lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free
* Install the steam package with gdebi:
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gdebi steam_latest.deb(I was planning on putting the output in attachment, but apparently I can't even upload txt files here?)
* REMOVE THE REPO'S AGAIN from /etc/apt/sources.list
* Do an apt-get update again to flush the old packages
(You should now be able to do an apt-get upgrade without seeing a whole lot of new packages:)
* And finally, run steam!
Hope this helps someone.
Kind regards,
Arre