Steam Client for Linux "coming soon"

[BlueJayofEvil]

Just came across this article recently: Steam Client for Linux Confirmed.
Looks like we might be playing more games on Linux in the near future.

[WarraWarra]

Wow no linux client yet ????

Almost thought this was a prank as I used to run steam in rr64 ages ago (or 8 computers back) but it must have been in wine or cedega or something, can not even remeber my steam account info or what games I own on there

[WarraWarra]

Update on download links, please share this with other linux OS users as it has been inactive since 2003.

Dedicated server for steam 421mb :
http://www.fileplanet.com/130424/130000 ... 5BLinux%5D

Steam-Server-Update-Tool 2.6mb :
http://www.fileplanet.com/130206/130000 ... 5BLinux%5D

Steam-v2.0-Beta-Client 1.6mb :
http://www.fileplanet.com/126568/120000 ... 5BLinux%5D

No gamespy id ? download:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distrib ... x/steam.gz

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distrib ... tetool.bin

Portage:
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/games-ser ... life-steam

[WarraWarra]

http://lhl.linuxgames.com/

A real download link:
http://www.japje.nl/wp-content/steam/steam.tar.gz
as well as on our ibiblio.org server under steam.

Apparently the extracted "steam" that is it steam client beta. I would presume it is missing several dependancy's as installing this and making it work used to be so much fun.

For the half life fans here is a old school LHL how-to:

http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half-life-HOWTO-0.5.htm

A forums with more info:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7474

Here is a straight forward guide LOL very detailed:

http://www.cs-cz.co.kr/cs/cz_info/steam/server_linux.php

That is it enough diging up the past.