Installing Steam

[surferkid993]

I've seen posts and posts about the steam 26% bug. And they say that typing this into the terminal fixes it:
wine SteamTmp.exe SelfUpdate "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" 14
but when I type that in I get this:
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\SteamTmp.exe": Module not found
so I did more research and it said to use this instead:
wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamTmp.exe" SelfUpdate "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" 14
this ran the steam update but it still stopped at 26% and said I can't run steam more than once.

[cogadh]

Run this instead:
nice -n 19 wine SteamTmp.exe SelfUpdate "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" 14
If that doesn't work, then run this:
nice -n 19 Steam.exe

[surferkid993]

nope neither worked this is what I get:
justin@justin-desktop:~$ nice -n 19 wine SteamTmp.exe SelfUpdate "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" 14
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\SteamTmp.exe": Module not found
justin@justin-desktop:~$ nice -n 19 Steam.exe
nice: Steam.exe: No such file or directory

[Sockerdrickan]

Dude... You should do it with the actual file adress afaik. I'm taking it your steam.exe is not on your desktop

get the latest msi install from www.steamgames.com and do wine start SteamInstall.msi

[pwrstick]

Hello,

I was having the same problem. When any commands are entered you may wish to navigate to the steam directory:

/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/

I found running commands in here worked "better", but I was still having error messages like you.

Oddly, after running the 'nice' commands, which then errored out, I happened to re run the steam installation, did a repair, and now it works.

Don't forget to install the Tahoma font or you wont be able to see any text.

[cogadh]

nope neither worked this is what I get:
justin@justin-desktop:~$ nice -n 19 wine SteamTmp.exe SelfUpdate "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" 14
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\SteamTmp.exe": Module not found
justin@justin-desktop:~$ nice -n 19 Steam.exe
nice: Steam.exe: No such file or directory

Sorry, I should have specified that you need to "cd" to Steam's install directory before running either one of those. In fact, before you run anything in Wine, you should change to its install directory.

[wennermark]

Have anybody solved this problem yet?

[rickatnight11]

Yes. I had these issues and this line worked great:

nice -n 19 wine Steam.exe

Just make sure you are in the ...Program Files/Steam directory.