I have a hard time trying to install steam on any freaking distro. Starting from Kali , Arch Linux now even Debian. The only easy install I made was on Ubuntu or Ubuntu based distros.

I need some help to install it here on debian because for some reason I like it more than Ubuntu , I dont even know why :/

My Debian version is 64bit and I don't want to reinstall it for 32. I have installed the legacy NVIDIA drivers for my quite old NVIDIA 9500 GT (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.run) and enabled multi arch with ' dpkg --add-architecture:i386 ' but steam continues to not wanting to start , it either asks me for libc.so.6 or sometimes it skips this error downloads steam and then errors asking for libGL.xxx (I can't remember now).

Anyone has a good step by step or idea on how to get steam working ??
Thank you for your time. :*

I found this guide some time ago but I allready had installed the Nvidia.run file on my sistem and at point 4 for the open gl drivers the sistem allways tried to installa the nvidia cleanup app that would remove and reconfigure the sistem too the old drivers "noveau" , problem is that it never succeeded either on debian or kali which is debian base that app would freeze for hours and do nothing.

I will try this guide whit a clean install of kali just for the thrill of it.

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sums it up


TarnaBar

on Kali YOU DO NOT CHANGE THE SOURCE.LIST !!! EVER
changing the repos in that file on kali will KILL YOUR kali install

the tools that make kali -- well kali
do not mix well with other deb's from other repos

getting all the tools to well " play nice together " is NOT EASY

DO NOT edit the "source.list" on kali


use Debain 8
your slightly older nvidia card is not a issue
fedora,opensuse,debian,mint,ubuntu all have a deb or rpm for that card


but
if you REALLY insist on doing things " the HARD WAY "
then use the NVIDIA.run

but
that is a MANUAL install
and you will need to reinstall for EVERY!!! kernel,xorg,mesa update

first you NEED to text only boot
-- NO !!! gui
blacklist "nouveau"
rebuild the boot image ( without nouveau )
install the Kernel source
install gcc and Autotools
then
install the .run

I have never said anything about the source.list first , second I am aware how he source.list works and how the linux sistem asks the repos for packages and installs them , it's very risky.

But 3rd I must ask now that I have a clean reinstall how should I procceed ?
Should I first do the Steam install with the multiarch and its own 32bit libs and then install the Nvidia.run?

You say that the .run is the hard way, is there any other way of installing the drivers? Keep in mind that my card now needs the legacy drivers and its not supported anymore.

And 4th , if its not much to ask could you explain better the proccedure you just said for the .run file? I would happily learn.