Need help downloading steam on ubuntu!

Question

I'm having trouble downloading steam to Ubuntu, his is my first time trying this I have a Google Chromebook and i tried to YouTube how to download steam and i pretty much have it, but it says that i'm missing some files steam needs in order to download. I've tried everything i don't know what to do or what i'm doing honestly. I need some help

Answer 1

Open the terminal and try with the following things,

pushd /tmp

sudo apt-get install -y curl wget && \

wget -E http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb && \

sudo dpkg -i steam.deb ; \

sudo apt-get install -yf && \

After installing please use exit command,

exit

Hope the above helps.

Answer 2

Please just go to the Ubuntu Software Center and install steam that way. It is painless and I've never seen it fail. I suspect it may require you to uninstall what you've already installed, but hopefully you can do that from the software center as well,