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The Steam for Linux beta officially launched on November 6th to a very limited set of participants. Since then, there have been a number of waves of additional testers, but, if you weren’t one of the lucky ones selected, you can still get a chance to try the client before the final release.
Thanks to the clever folks over on Reddit, there is now a simple workaround to launch the beta without an invite, and here’s how you can try it on your machine.
First, open up your terminal and enter the following:
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb && sudo apt-get install -f
Next, launch the Steam application from the dash. You’ll then be prompted to login to your Steam account. You should receive an error reminding you that you aren’t enrolled in the beta, but just ignore it and close the dialog box.
Note: if you’re running an AMD64 architecture, then you will also need to run the following command:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-turbo8:i386 libcurl3gnutls:i386 libogg0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libtheora0:i386 libvorbis0a:i386 libvorbisenc2:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386 libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386
Once all of the dependencies are installed, you’re finally ready to get going. To start the client just open the terminal and run:
steam steam:open/games and you’ll have access to your Steam library. There are currently 29 officially supported games available, including titles Team Fortress 2, Frozen Synapse and World of Goo. My experience (using the above workaround) went pretty well on my modest laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64. Unfortunately, out of the games I tested, only two of the four games launched successfully. While Braid and VVVVV failed to find the executable file, Osmos and World of Goo looked beautiful and worked without a hitch. In-game functions like Shift-Tab to access the steam Community (and other shortcuts) work as expected. Visually, there are no real surprises - the client interface is sporting the same familiar look we all know from Windows and Mac. In short, some games may take a little tweaking to get up and running, but, overall, the Steam beta is an exciting look at what we can expect from Valve for the final version.