Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I tried and failed, but I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on it. I > never managed to completely fix the dependency chain for getting the Ubuntu > package to install cleanly. Do you have any tips that you can remember? What > Debian release are you running? i386 or amd64? > > I doubt Steam will be expanding their distro support any time soon. Looks to > me like they engaged Ubuntu some time ago to get the compiled in support > they wanted.
I have no idea who's being quoted here, but I think the first paragraph
is someone other than Mark, and the bottom is Mark.
Mark, PLEASE don't top-post, and please try to follow a (literally)
decades-old established quote-and-reply convention with an attribute
line at the top and and ">" showing quotations (kinda like this message
does :-) ). If you can't get Outlook to do it, perhaps you can switch
to a mail program that makes it easier to follow those conventions? I
use Thunderbird, myself, but there are plenty around that do the job
nicely. I suspect that many of us reading this list will thank you. <grin>
Anyway, on to my actual reply.... ;-)
I don't know what kind of time-table they have set for themselves, but
given Valve's increasing interest in the Linux market, I'd be willing to
bet that once their open beta testing period is over with, they'll start
expanding to other Linux distribution packaging systems, and may well
even provide a method for installing software without a package manager
(a'la tarball, etc.). I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of time. :-)
--Dave
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