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So recently i trying to install steam with vanilladpup 10 x86_64. Thats because steam isnt supporting win 7. But does anyone get steam running with this puppylinux? How?.

When i installing i get errors, like sha256, though it just same from server but i got folder location text after my sha256, like:
Sha256 error, Server "number sha", mine "number sha" + folder location. I buy some games on steam and my pc seems cant run win 10 either. Rn I just wanna install steam & playing games "After" i upgrading my pc.

Any help? Im not home rn, gonna post imeg later

Oh, and here is my spec:
Pentium e5400
2x1gigs of ram (gonna upgrade this month)
Nvidia 9800 gt
16gb sandisk usb (which vdpup running & has 4gb save)

I've tried mindustry, it works normally & i can play server too.
Also tried PlayOnLinux, it run using run-as-spot but it show error about different wine SHA256 when installing wine.
(Sorry for bad english)

Dimaspaf14 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:14 am

So recently i trying to install steam with vanilladpup 10 x86_64. Thats because steam isnt supporting win 7. But does anyone get steam running with this puppylinux? How?.

Maybe this will help you:
In the "Getting started with Vanilladpup" section, you can read that "Some applications are only available in 32-bit packages: most notably, Wine and Steam. To enable support for 32-bit packages":

Feek wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:02 am

Maybe this will help you:
In the "Getting started with Vanilladpup" section, you can read that "Some applications are only available in 32-bit packages: most notably, Wine and Steam. To enable support for 32-bit packages":

i cant upload image to this forum (idk its firefox fault/ maybe something), here the log:

~$ dpkg --add-architecture i386
~$ apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
~$

dimkr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:31 am

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dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install steam

here the terminal logs installing steam:
https://ctxt.io/2/AADQi7-qFg
(mirror):

after i run it just the same:
~$ steam
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 3534k 100 3534k 0 0 1520k 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 1520k
SHA256 verification failed
Expected: e52565a5e33b9a4184c5bdc222978b7fea958efd32641d5d5967774d751236a7
Got: e52565a5e33b9a4184c5bdc222978b7fea958efd32641d5d5967774d751236a7 /root/.steam/debian-installation/deb-installer/steam_1.0.0.75.tar.gz.8848
~$ ^C
~$ run-as-spot steam
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 3534k 100 3534k 0 0 2120k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 2120k
SHA256 verification failed
Expected: e52565a5e33b9a4184c5bdc222978b7fea958efd32641d5d5967774d751236a7
Got: e52565a5e33b9a4184c5bdc222978b7fea958efd32641d5d5967774d751236a7 /home/spot/.steam/debian-installation/deb-installer/steam_1.0.0.75.tar.gz.9048
~$

I will join on that because I tried to follow and... well, first it did not let me upgrade packages after I installed (image below)
And then this happened. Not sure what to do really, nor anyone I know outside of this forum that could help.

Helped with one thing, thanks! There is still this though..

apt-mark unhold udev
apt upgrade udev
rm /etc/init.d/udev

Can be dangerous (can break your Puppy), I recommend upgrading to the latest 10.0.x release (which incorporates all updates) instead of doing this.

apt-get update? Because I did that approximately 3 hours ago, though, some packages just refused to get updated for some reason, no clue why. I can risk it right now as this is a fresh install (i messed too many things up last time) so I will just go for it now. I have a fairly new release from like a month ago or less.

EDIT: it progressed further, I got steam installer (I think?) but when I run it and confirm installation it claims SHA256 verification failed.

apt upgrade won't do anything because package versions are locked. Because of the way Puppy is built, your system will break if you update certain packages, and that's why they're locked by default.

The only 100% safe way to update is to to update to the latest 10.0.x build: replace vmlinuz, initrd.gz, ucode.cpio and *.sfs with those from the latest ISO (currently 10.0.43).

Thanks, I will look for some guides on how to do it properly if there are some beginner friendly ^^

dimkr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:50 pm

The only 100% safe way to update is to to update to the latest 10.0.x build: replace vmlinuz, initrd.gz, ucode.cpio and *.sfs with those from the latest ISO (currently 10.0.43).

Im running vdpup 10.0.43 (intalled it 2 days ago) and how does i skip that sha256 verification, it made me bit frustrated tho

rm -f /bin/sha256sum
ln -s sha256sum-FULL /bin/sha256sum

EDIT: this fix will be part of 10.0.44, and Steam will auto-configure itself to run as spot (this was also broken).

Well, it's me again. Still on 10.0.40, but by using commands posted here I got steam to open, and I still have a few issues - icon is not in the start menu, but there is an icon for steam installer. It still opens just fine from terminal but last time I got steam (though I had different issues, irrelevant) the icon was there. Same version of puppy.

Another thing is being unable to click anything in drop down lists - can't open game properties for a game I downloaded (doesn't open) and I'm unable to change proton version in steam settings too due to being unable to click drop down lists on steam. For some reason I can use drop down lists everywhere else too.

Yet another thing was... .steam/steam folder only having deb installer and no folders that I thought should be there. I think I messed up this installation in some ways but if there's something that could be done I happily would try.

Any clue what may be up?

I'll attempt to update to 10.0.43 (or just wait for 10.0.44) or make a fresh install if I fail, but if helping a dummy like me wouldn't be a problem I'd really appreciate

@maxsmith Please try this on 10.0.44:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install -y steam

Got Steam up and running on 10.0.44, and I still come across the issue of Steam's icon not appearing in the Menu and needing to open it from terminal, and I get plenty of errors in the terminal in spite of which the app still opens. Anything I am missing? I will make an edit to it soon and add screenshots.

Edit: I am unable to use drop-down lists in Steam too, whatever can be causing it. As in, drop-down lists appear but clicking on any of the options on them does not, as if I have clicked whatever is under them, as if it was not there.

Does anybody know what might be causing those issues?

Try apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 if you have an Intel GPU, you won't get too far without working Vulkan drivers.

If text is messed up, apt install fonts-dejavu.

I will try just that! Though, I have a Ryzen CPU and its iGPU, I'll let you know in an edit if it works.

Update: Still screams "unable to initialize vulkan", and drop down lists are still not working. I really have no clue what to do.

@dimkr Another thing I wanted to ask before getting the latest Puppy 10.0.x - should I get the x.org or wayland if I want to use Steam and play a few games?

X.Org is the safe choice because there's no vsync. Games run through Xwayland so you gain nothing from using the Xwayland flavor.