So I started using Steam on Linux a few weeks ago, but I’m concerned about how Steam suddenly deciding to require admin privileges could impact my system, and would likely mean I would have to ban it again. Note that installing the wrapper adds Steam repositories to your sources.list, which is a no-go for me.

I only installed the dependencies as admin, but I don’t have a problem with that, as long as they’re part of the Ubuntu distribution. I didn’t even install the wrapper on my system, only unpacked the deb, looked at how it started, and did the whole thing as a standard user.

These latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system.Steam requiring admin privileges on Windows, with it being basically unable to run without the Steam service, and additionally modifying the NTFS ACLs, is the reason why I banned it for more than ten years, and I discovered only recently that there is a way to have the Linux client set up and running with standard user privileges only. Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to install. If a hyphen is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is installed. The /etc/apt/sources.list file is used to locate the desired packages. All packages required by the package(s) specified for installation will also be retrieved and installed. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename. APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix-like computer systems by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software packages, either from precompiled files or by compiling source code.Īpt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's 'back-end' to other tools using the APT library.Īpt-get install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation or upgrading. More information about install using apt-getĪdvanced Package Tool, or APT, is a free software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Device support for Steam-related hardware

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