How To Install steam-installer on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install steam-installer on Debian 12.
What is steam-installer
steam-installer is:
Steam (https://www.steampowered.com) is a software content delivery system developed by Valve software (https://www.valvesoftware.com). There is some free software available, but for the most part the content delivered is non-free.
This package provides a script that downloads and installs the Steam client, and depends on 32-bit and 64-bit libraries and other components that are required by the Steam client. The actual Steam installation and all Steam games will be installed into the home directory of each user who runs the installer script.
Because Steam requires 32-bit libraries, before installing this package it will be necessary to run, as root:
dpkg –add-architecture i386; apt update
Use of Steam is subject to several license agreements and other legal terms. Please see https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/ and https://store.steampowered.com/legal/ for more details, and pay attention and read carefully if you’re worried about your rights.
There are three methods to install steam-installer on Debian 12. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 12
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 Debian 12, 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 Debian 12 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
Dependencies
steam-installer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install steam-installer package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
