Steam installer for Debian

steam_bootstrap.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Steam installer for Debian wheezy (32- and 64-bit)
#
# Place into empty directory and run.
#

download() {
    local url="$1"
    local filename="$(basename "$url")"

    if [ ! -f "$filename" ]; then
        wget -c "$url" -O "$filename.part"
        mv "$filename.part" "$filename"
    fi
}

package() {
    local url="$1"
    local target="$2"

    download "$url"

    mkdir -p "$target"
    ar p "$(basename "$url")" data.tar.gz | tar xz -C "$target"
}

set -e

package http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb "${PWD}/tree"

STEAMPACKAGE="steam"
STEAMCONFIG="${HOME}/.steam"
STEAMDATALINK="${STEAMCONFIG}/${STEAMCONFIG}"
STEAMBOOTSTRAP="steam.sh"
LAUNCHSTEAMDIR="$(readlink -eq "${STEAMDATALINK}" || echo)"
LAUNCHSTEAMPLATFORM="ubuntu12_32"
LAUNCHSTEAMBOOTSTRAPFILE="${PWD}/tree/usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_${LAUNCHSTEAMPLATFORM}.tar.xz"
STEAM_DATA_HOME=${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}
CLASSICSTEAMDIR="$HOME/Steam"
DEFAULTSTEAMDIR="$STEAM_DATA_HOME/Steam"

STEAMDIR="${DEFAULTSTEAMDIR}"

if [ ! -d "$STEAMCONFIG" ]; then
    mkdir "$STEAMCONFIG"
fi

echo "Setting up Steam content in $STEAMDIR"

mkdir -p "${STEAMDIR}"
tar xJf "${LAUNCHSTEAMBOOTSTRAPFILE}" -C "${STEAMDIR}"

cat > "${STEAMDIR}/steam_on_debian.sh" <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
STEAMDIR="\$(readlink -f "\$(dirname "\$0")")"
if [ -z "\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" ]; then
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="\${STEAMDIR}/compat_libraries/lib/i386-linux-gnu"
else
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="\${STEAMDIR}/compat_libraries/lib/i386-linux-gnu:\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
fi

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

exec "\${STEAMDIR}/steam.sh" "\$@"
EOF

chmod +x "${STEAMDIR}/steam_on_debian.sh"

echo "Installing Ubuntu packages"

mkdir -p "${STEAMDIR}/compat_libraries"
package http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.15-0ubuntu10.2_i386.deb "${STEAMDIR}/compat_libraries"

echo "Installing desktop files"
mkdir -p "${STEAM_DATA_HOME}/applications"
sed "s!/usr/bin/steam!${STEAMDIR}/steam_on_debian.sh!" tree/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop > "${STEAM_DATA_HOME}/applications/steam.desktop"
cp -R tree/usr/share/icons "${STEAM_DATA_HOME}"

echo "Adding Steam to PATH"
MAGIC_LINE="[[ -f \"${STEAMDIR}/setup_debian_environment.sh\" ]] && source \"${STEAMDIR}/setup_debian_environment.sh\""

cat > "${STEAMDIR}/setup_debian_environment.sh" <<EOF
if ! which steam > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    PATH="${STEAMDIR}/debian_bin:${PATH}"
    export PATH
fi
EOF

mkdir -p "${STEAMDIR}/debian_bin"

cat > "${STEAMDIR}/debian_bin/steam" <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
exec "${STEAMDIR}/steam_on_debian.sh" "$@"
EOF

chmod +x "${STEAMDIR}/debian_bin/steam"

if ! grep -qxF "${MAGIC_LINE}" "${HOME}/.bashrc"; then
    echo "$MAGIC_LINE" >> "${HOME}/.bashrc"

    echo
    echo "Steam was added to your profile. Please relogin or source ~/.bashrc."
    echo
fi

echo "To uninstall:"
echo "rm -rf ${STEAM_DIR}"
echo "rm -f everything steamish from ${STEAM_DATA_HOME}/applications"
echo "remove ${MAGIC_LINE} from ${HOME}/.bashrc"

Please could you specify the needed dependecies?

Thank you!

Using a bang character in the sed expression makes it unnecessarily hard to copy'n'paste the script into a shell. Thanks, though.

Thanks a lot, exactly what I was looking for !

well it installed ok, then I started steam it started the update, then I get a Fatal Error: Failed to lead steamui.so

→ steam
Running Steam on debian 7.0
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically on debian
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359765526_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359765526_client)

Line 108, wouldn't "${STEAMDIR}" instead of "${STEAM_DIR}" be neat? :D

Thank you very much for this, good sir! I can confirm that it's working on Wheezy.
One small problem I've noticed is that the script does not add a newline character before MAGIC_LINE in .bashrc which is a problem if you don't have an empty line at its end.

Dependencies are: apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libogg0:i386
libpixman-1-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libtheora0:i386
libvorbis0a:i386 libvorbisenc2:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386
libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libcairo2:i386 libcups2:i386
libdbus-1-3:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386
libgcc1:i386 libgcrypt11:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386
libglib2.0-0:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libnspr4:i386
libnss3:i386 libopenal1:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386
libpng12-0:i386 libpulse0:i386 libstdc++6:i386
libx11-6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxi6:i386
libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1:i386 zlib1g:i386

From http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846939071205530634/

With latest steam, i'm getting following error:

Couldn't start bootstrap and couldn't reinstall from /usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz. Please contact technical support.

Works great, thanks! 👍

Worked like a charm, plus a learned a couple of new bash tricks, thanks!

Getting this:

Couldn't start bootstrap and couldn't reinstall from /usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz. Please contact technical support.

Worked great for me, one issue though:

on line 85:

    PATH="${STEAMDIR}/debian_bin:${PATH}"

The ${PATH} in that string expands to your PATH at the time steam_bootstrap.sh was run. This means that if you later try to add a directory to your path (in your .profile or .bashrc or whatever), it gets clobbered by this line. It'd be nicer if this line was instead:

    PATH="${STEAMDER}/debian_bin:\$PATH"

which will expand to the users PATH at the time the setup_debian_environment.sh script is sourced, rather than when steam was first installed, preventing this issue

Thanks.

Brilliant, thanks a lot for this!

Debian is now packaging Steam for testing and unstable: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/steam.html

If, after running this and sourcing .bashrc, running 'steam' you get this error:

Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libGL.so.1

Setup multiarch (as root)

dpkg --add-architecture i386

Install mesa-glx for 32 bits (as root)

apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

Most probably libGL.so.1 is at /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/ now, so LD_LIBRARY_PATH that before running steam

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/ steam

Cheers,