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Bulletproofmask
September 24th, 2010, 07:12 PM
I recently installed Steam and have found that it runs properly from the command line with Wine.

Unfortunately, the link under Applications>Wine>Programs>Steam does not yield the same results. When I try to run Steam from this link I get two error messages: "File not found" and then "There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file".

I was sure I would be able to find a solution on my own, but a few hours of searching turned up very little. I am running the latest version of Ubuntu, Wine, Steam.
beastrace91
September 24th, 2010, 09:32 PM
Wanna post the directory your Steam folder resides as well as the launcher command for the Steam menu entry.

~Jeff
Fableflame
September 24th, 2010, 09:35 PM
Your problem isn't so bad.
I tried to install Steam with WINE and my entire system froze, I had to hard reboot.
Bulletproofmask
September 24th, 2010, 09:54 PM
Wanna post the directory your Steam folder resides as well as the launcher command for the Steam menu entry.

~Jeff


Steam located at ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam and the text from the launcher is:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Steam
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/robert/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/robert/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/robert/Start\\ Menu/Programs/Steam/Steam.lnk
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Comment=Steam Client
Icon=/home/robert/.local/share/icons/3c3d_icon048298c91.2.png
Bulletproofmask
September 24th, 2010, 09:55 PM
Your problem isn't so bad.
I tried to install Steam with WINE and my entire system froze, I had to hard reboot.

Ouch
beastrace91
September 25th, 2010, 01:55 AM
Your problem isn't so bad.
I tried to install Steam with WINE and my entire system froze, I had to hard reboot.

That post is very much borderline spam. Odds are it just froze X. ctrl+alt+f1 would have dropped you to a tty to for an X restart from.

@Bullet Try replacing the command line with this:

wine /home/robert/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe

~Jeff
Bulletproofmask
September 25th, 2010, 04:02 AM
That worked perfectly. I realize now that this was not an issue with Wine and could really have been posted in the Beginners Forum. Thank you for your help beastrace, I appreciate your time and effort.