Comments on: Installing Valve’s STEAM and Counterstrike on Ubuntu

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:32 +0000

if wget http://steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.exe doesnt work, try:
wget http://store.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.exe

By: Samrat

Samrat — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:36:55 +0000

Hmmm ne1 knows how to instal counter strike version 2 on ubuntu?

By: senbonzakura

senbonzakura — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:36:41 +0000

reason why wget http://steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.exe isnt working cause its wrong file type, must be .msi
=> change to wget http://steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi in terminal or jst go to steampowered website and download it manually

By: alan

alan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:21:16 +0000

# Brad Says:
June 18th, 2008 at 4:11 am

I have been trying for nearly 30 minutes to get this working, but Steam just keeps hanging up on the Update splash…it’s not showing a progress bar either.

##
I realise this is a bit late, but if you follow the instructions on wine’s page for installing steam, it seems to clear thsis up.

using wine to run internet explorer and then installing gecko (it prompts you to do this) and THEN installing steam from the MSI installer worked for me.

but i really hope you haven’t been waiting all this time for me to say that

By: Huge BLACK C

Huge BLACK C — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:20:09 +0000

HEY WTF i do if i already unziped the fonts.
I put in console what you say and it says:

rafael@turonk-desktop:~$ wget http://steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.exe
–17:19:35– http://steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.exe
=> `SteamInstall.exe’
Resolviendo steampowered.com… 63.228.223.107, 63.228.223.100
Conectando a steampowered.com|63.228.223.107|:80… conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta… 404 Not Found
17:19:35 ERROR 404: Not Found.
PLZ HELP

By: n3m3sis

n3m3sis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:19:16 +0000

If CS wont update then remove the file, ClientReg.blob ind cstrike folder.

Then you force it too update

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:19:18 +0000

I hate to do this again, but I am compelled to… The wget for the SteamInstall.exe didn’t work for me either. I searched “SteamInstall.exe” in google and found a different copy. This is the one I used, and for sheer convince I have linked it here.

I swear this is the last thing I need to say. I think.
…. other than The Dark Knight really was a good movie… I just watched it like hours ago. Sold out 12:01 show. It was pretty sweet.

SteamInstall.exe is here.
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/10694

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:11:33 +0000

OH yea, I also had a problem with this site’s font archive… I found my solution by typing this into a terminal… It is ment to be run in a script, but I did it manually for fun i guess.

# Gets the required font Tahoma.ttf and places it in the correct directory
wget http://mcinroy.org/steam/tahoma.ttf
cp tahoma.ttf ~/Desktop/
cp tahoma.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

Here is that site as well

http://mcinroy.org/2007/08/22/install-steam-in-ubuntu-using-wine-bash-script/

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:08:24 +0000

Default Re: Missing option from merge? Wine fullscreen woes
Quote:
Originally Posted by chuckyp
I’m assuming the plugin will hit git stream soon?
In the meantime, (in Cedega) you can untick the “Managed” option, and with most games this will work and fix this problem.

In wine, find where you can switch the window management style and choose for wine to manage it..

HTH
-r

This was a helpful solution for me. When the window is small as it is for me running compviz and dual monitors. The problem I had was cs was opening in a 800 x 600 window, and there was no option to change it in steam.

The solution is to go to wine and let it manage it’s self… I also messed with the default wine window size so it would take up the whole screen (one face of my right cube.

Here is the forum url where I found my answer.

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=2507

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:11:50 +0000

I wasn’t able to extract the fonts from the archive into my fonts folder. Ubuntu told me archive type not supported.

Ive been able to launch Counter-Strike: Source, but then the game just closes down after I see the Menu background image. Any ideas why?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:11:48 +0000

I have been trying for nearly 30 minutes to get this working, but Steam just keeps hanging up on the Update splash…it’s not showing a progress bar either.

By: Jon Gibbins

Jon Gibbins — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:17:38 +0000

Steam loads a treat. I have a dual screen setup on my Bunty 8.04 setup and the CSS install gets confused with the dusl screen total size, and standard CS will only run in a window. HOWEVER, such amazing progress since the last time I tried the Steam games on Linux.
Give it another year, I can see all games running nicely.

By: eddie

eddie — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:35:54 +0000

can find the exe, do you have an alternative link available??

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By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:02:31 +0000

Remember to change the “” in the shortcut!!!

By: Aaron Burger

Aaron Burger — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:13:01 +0000

Very specific and helpful article. I’ve only been using Ubuntu for a week now and I got steam running in 5 minuets. Most of that time was spent trying to figure out how to move the fonts into the wine folder. All I had to do was click on view, show hidden files to get to the .wine directory.

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