From: David Guntner [mailto:dav...@akamail.net] > 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>
You have it the wrong way around. In fact, none of that is me at all. I am generally aware of the quoting conventions. > 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 Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora and some other RPM-based distros such as OpenSuSE. Slackware, Arch, and Gentoo are likely out of luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/006e01ce000c$c61ba0b0$5252e210$@allums.com
