[Wine] Installing Steam

Subsidiarity wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed May 5 00:13:24 CDT 2010


Hello all,

I've run into a problem installing Steam. I'm running Suse 11.2, KDE, and have successfully installed it before on a previous incarnation of this system. I use dolphin to navigate to the download folder, start a terminal, then as root (su), I type "wine start SteamInstall.msi". Everything seems to go well until after the "updating platform" message. At that point, Steam's window just never shows up, even though it appears in the taskbar. Nothing happens when I click on it in the task bar. 

If I just shut it down at this point by right clicking on the taskbar (I can't do anything else that I know of), it doesn't install. It does not appear in kickoff application launcher. I tried to start it from a terminal (wine start steam.exe) to no effect. I may not be doing that right though. 

A further problem may actually be at the root of this one. The first time I tried to install steam I had to cancel. It didn't do a clean job of removing the folder (Steam) and I can't find it using dolphin. So when I next tried to install, it told me it could only install in an empty folder. So I installed it in Steam1. When that didn't work I tried again, uninstalling first. I hit the same problem again though, and now have 4 useless folders in the c:/program files  directory that I can't access and don't know how  delete. 

Any suggestions on how to proceed? Where are the directories from the failed installations and is there any way I can access them from dolphin so I can remove them? Thank you very much in advance. 

Subsidiarity







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