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I have ubuntu 13.10 installed and I'm still very new to this. I'm still trying to grasp the system mechanics so I would like a step by step solution.

I've downloaded and installed wine 1.5 with winetricks. Using winetricks I installed Steam successfully. When I run Steam the login screen comes up fine. The problem appears after typing in my info and logging in. It just closes, with nothing appearing.

Anyone have any tips?

Akisame
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Garrison
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You can download Steam .deb from it's site http://store.steampowered.com/

xangua
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not an actual answer (it would not let me post a comment to first post), but some info:

same happens on Debian, wine 1.6 from sid, official Steam instaler (.msi)

It installs fine, it opens fine, I log in, and then... it closes without any kind of message.

this is the console log: http://pastie.org/8530710

PS: almost same (crash after login) with steam 1.4 from stable. I thought updating to 1.6 would fix it, but it seems it doesn't.

PPS: a quite actual answer: updating to latest (wine) GIT release could help (I saw that on winehq regarding last Steam update, or something.... ). but I'm too lazy to compile a 32 bit package on a 64 bit machine, only to find it still not working....

EDIT: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35030 it IS a bug, and it has been resolved in last git release. now, if anyone wants to update...

oh, and btw, the bug is present in ALL recent (stable) versions of wine (1.4 ; 1.5 and 1.6) (wine 1.7.X is still in devel)

niky45
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Try it with Wine 1.6. As far as I know, usually when somebody have any problem with Wine installing new version is one of the firsts things suggested.

Ok, I checked it on my Wine 1.6 and same problem appeared. I guess it's Steam's problem because before it run without any problem.

Isn't it a problem like Yours: http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/666825524990131434/ ?

Now, after installing Wine 1.7, Steam works fine.

kcpr
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Use PlayOnLinux instead of plain wine.

There you can just choose to install Steam from a menu. It will download the client, install it and install a lot of small extensions (selected stuff from winetricks, missing libraries, etc.) known to be needed by Steam. Maybe it works this way.

This also allows you to keep different programs in separate wine prefixes (think of it as separate windows installations within wine), which can prevent different programs interfering with one another.

Furthermore it allows to choose the wine version without much effort. You do not have to use the newest version, when an older one is reported to work better for some reason.

Tim
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