Can I install Steam on a machine running XBMCbuntu?
I have a living room computer running XBMCbuntu, which is essentially a streamlined version of Ubuntu geared towards running XBMC (and so it boots directly into XBMC).
The machine it's installed on is pretty weak from a gaming standpoint, but I have a few indie titles that it should be able to run and I am very curious to see if it would be able to handle in-home streaming of games.
Since, to my best understanding, XBMCbuntu has some Ubuntu bits missing to keep it lightweight, I was wondering if it is at all possible to install the Steam client on it. A simple Google search did not yield anything reliable/conclusive, and so I turn to the expertise of you fine gentle-persons.
Have any of you had any experience with installing Steam on a plain XBMCbuntu machine? If so I would love to know how to get started. To be clear, the machine is more or less at the state one would get to by following the installation instructions on fresh machine.
Best Answer
I am not familiar with XBMCbuntu, but if you can get to a terminal and have sudo and apt installed, you should be able to:
sudo apt-get install steam
to install it.
Steam was added in the 12.04 repositories, so if XBMCbuntu uses the standard repos or clones of them, it should be as easy as just entering that command.
If XBMCbuntu doesn't allow you to get to a terminal or doesn't have sudo or apt installed, it may have synaptic installed by default and you can get it from there by searching for "steam".
If it isn't there, I think the official valve repo is: http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ "release version"/steam
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Answer 2
You can do things like this, as Xbmcbuntu does indded have ubuntu at it's core. it will read from the standard repositories and you can add new ones.
however, there are a few things to know. first, sound will be troublesome, unless yo uinstall pulseaudio and have it mix everything, as XBMC does not expect to share the sound device. there are some apt pinning done to prevent ubuntu updates from accidentally installing pulseaudio if you upgrade. you need to delete two files to release these apt pins.
second, you'll need a launcher script to set up and teardown the environment yo uneed.
somethign like:
#!/bin/sh
openbox &
NameOfProgram -flagsYouNeed
kill %1
this is a basic one, it launches the openbox window manager, then nameofprogram, then when Nameofprogram ends it kills openbox.
thisd script can be called via the advanced launcher script. i'm actually typing this on an XBMCbuntu computer in my livingrom, with chromiuym launched with a similar script.
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