How To Install steam-installer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install steam-installer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is steam-installer
steam-installer is:
Steam (http://www.steampowered.com) is a software content delivery system developed by Valve software (http://www.valvesoftware.com). There is some free software available, but for the most part the content delivered is non-free.
This package enables Steam to be easily installed via an appstream client on non-i386 systems as long as the i386 foreign architecture is configured. This is the default on Ubuntu, but on Debian, you may need to run as root: dpkg –add-architecture i386; apt update
This package is not needed if you only want to install Steam directly with apt or with a non-appstream client like Synaptic.
There are three methods to install steam-installer on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install steam-installer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install steam-installer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install steam-installer
Install steam-installer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install steam-installer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install steam-installer
Install steam-installer Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install steam-installer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install steam-installer
How To Uninstall steam-installer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the steam-installer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove steam-installer
Uninstall steam-installer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall steam-installer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove steam-installer
Remove steam-installer Configurations and Data
To remove steam-installer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge steam-installer
Remove steam-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove steam-installer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge steam-installer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install steam-installer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
