haveing trouble installing steam

[Nicktu]

im haveing some trouble installing steam, i looked at the installation manual for it and its seems to complicated. i cant seem to figure it out

link to manual:
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=17

can someone please help me, or simplify it for me, ive only gotten to the point of installing wine, i cant install the mozilla plugin :(

[unkemptwolf]

Ive been having the same problem. I can download steam and install it fine (I'm using wine .91), but when I try to start it, it begins downloading the mozilla plugin. Which is fine, it downloads it and launches the installer automatically. But once i get into the install, I run into a problem. It asks me for the location of my mozilla folder, and when I tell it what the location is, it promptly informs me that I am wrong and the install did not complete correctly. When I try to start Steam again, the whole process starts over.

This is true both of the Ubuntu mozilla package, and the windows. I thought perhaps that, being a windows program, it might need the windows version of mozilla, but the same thing happened. Its quite frustrating. Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone gotten it working and could share EXACTALLY how they did it? Thanks.

[markmark]

Did you try installing the mozilla plugin thing yourself manually as described in the guide linked above?

download this file: http://downloads.transgaming.com/mozilla_control_downloads/mozcontrol.tgz

extract it to some place within your wine install such as: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/mozcontrol

then cd into that directory and run: wine regsvr32 mozctlx.dll

Just watch out that I think that *.tgz file has the mozcontrol directory in it, so if you can't find all the files check that you don't have "Program\ Files/mozcontrol/mozcontrol"

[unkemptwolf]

It worked! Now.. to get DoD running:D

[Falklian]

I just installed Steam today and decided to search on how to get the Mozilla plugin installed and found this thread. Works well enough to get it running, but the problem I'm experiencing now is that although it now loads up, I get no text whatsoever, so I have no idea what to click on etc. Is this a problem with fonts? (i.e. don't have the associated fonts the program needs installed on my machine?)

[stoffe]

I just installed Steam today and decided to search on how to get the Mozilla plugin installed and found this thread. Works well enough to get it running, but the problem I'm experiencing now is that although it now loads up, I get no text whatsoever, so I have no idea what to click on etc. Is this a problem with fonts? (i.e. don't have the associated fonts the program needs installed on my machine?)
Yes, you need the Tahoma font: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82318

Alternatively, you can tell Wine to use some other font that you do have, but I don't remember how. Try google. :)

[Xyxex]

well i did just that what we said in this thread, but then when i go in to the "Steam folder" and type: wine Steam.exe the program doesnt appear.... it happens nothing... what is the wrong?

[Xyxex]

ok now i can start Steam.exe,,, but lol, when i need to put in my account name and password i cant use my keyboard!!! I cant type in anything....

[PrincessPeach]

ok now i can start Steam.exe,,, but lol, when i need to put in my account name and password i cant use my keyboard!!! I cant type in anything....

I had that same problem. I did some right-clicking in the text fields and restarted it a couple of times and then it worked.

[Akya]

r some reason its giving me an error saying i dont have the authority

[Gray.]

What do you mean? At what part of installing/running Steam do you get this error?

[Akya]

when i try to start it actualy its saying it, it says "Steam.exe (main exception): Win32 StructuredException at 7D49FB71 : Attempt to read from virtual address 88 without appropriate access rights."

[Gray.]

Are you following this (http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=17) guide? Make sure that you download the latest Wine (0.9.3). If you edit your sources list (using Terminal):
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_original
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following lines to the end of the file:
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
then save it and exit.
Now:
sudo apt-get update
Then open Synaptic (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager) and search for wine then select the latest entry and click Apply.
That way Wine should be installed.

[Akya]

dangit! now im having another problem "fatal error: could not load module 'bin/vgui2.dll' "

[Akya]

grey you are very helpfull would you happen to have a screen name or something?

[linkunderscore]

dangit! now im having another problem "fatal error: could not load module 'bin/vgui2.dll' "


you have to run steam from inside that directory.

aka

cd ~drive_c/Program Files/SteamApps/Steam/

once you are in that dir do "wine Steam.exe"