[mdlug] Steam on Linux

[Adam Behnke]

ugh, ok, so now i will ask for help, lol.

system:
ubuntu studio 12.04 x64
radeon hd 5700 graphics card
system fully updated via repositories except the video driver (which i just did)

i just installed the most recent stable driver for my radeon hd 5700
graphics card from the amd/ati website (there is a beta driver, it may
be my next step).

see the screenshot of my error (shrunk down)

i'm following a work around, but maybe i'm just not understanding it.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846938351012409765/

i've placed the strstr.c file in $me/.steam/bin
i then ran in terminal the gcc command (having cd /.steam/bin first)
i created the hl2debug, and set the export to $HOME/.steam/bin/strstr.so
chmod +x hl2debug
gedit /etc/bin.bashrc and added

[code]
#steam debugger
export PATH=$HOME/.steam/bin:$PATH
export GAME_DEBUGGER="hl2debug"
[/code]


i'm reading the next step and asking myself, "what does that even mean?"

"Either log out/back in if you want to launch steam with the menu
option, or just get the variable into your environment (`source
~/.bashrc`) and launch steam from the terminal."


having done srcds before, i changed the desktop launcher to
(/usr/bin/steam %U 'source ~/.bashrc')  with no success.

i just tried source ~/.bashrc in terminal and then steam, but now i
get an fatal error stating "failed to load libstream.so"



On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Paul <set.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com>, on Mon  2012.12.10 said:
>> Does anyone else think this statement is odd?
>>
>> (`source ~/.bashrc`)
>>
>> The () means to launch a subshell for `source ~/.bashrc`, and the
>> `` means launch a subshell to run the output of source ~/.bashrc.
>> The source command means to run the following command in the current
>> shell.  Sooo...that command will do nothing, even though it appears
>> to want to load environmental variables and/or aliases in the current
>> shell.
>>
>
>         Hi;
>
>         The link he gave building a library to override a function
> in the game, to compensate for missing functionality via a wrapper
> script using LD_PRELOAD.
>         The reference to .bashrc was just to set some environmental
> variables, so that Steam will know to use this wrapper as a debugger
> launcher. So the () were textually parenthetic, not shell.
>         Adam, there are 3 steps to that work-around.
>
> 1) build a library from the C source code listing
> 2) create a wrapper script to use it
> 3) set 2 env variables in your ~/.bashrc
>
>         Normally when you log in, certain files are referenced by
> your shell. When the article says 'source ~/.bashrc`, they mean
> to manually reference it, if you do not want to log in/out.
>
>         Let us know what parts of the steps above you feel may
> be giving your trouble.
>
> Paul
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