The hoops are only because people here are trying to install it without disturbing their Windows setup. If you just wanted to wipe your PC and put Ubuntu on it as the only OS it's easy as cake.
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How to install Steam on Linux to get the TF2 Tux item
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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The hoops are only because people here are trying to install it without disturbing their Windows setup. If you just wanted to wipe your PC and put Ubuntu on it as the only OS it's easy as cake.
Just wanted to report that I also snagged the penguin without actually running the game.
My netbook uses Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I already had Steam installed on it. I just downloaded the TF2 files, tried booting up the game only to get an OpenGL error about not having the proper drivers and such, and then the item appeared in my inventory. So you don't even need to bother with getting around the driver issues that a lot of people have been running into, it seems...
My netbook uses Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I already had Steam installed on it. I just downloaded the TF2 files, tried booting up the game only to get an OpenGL error about not having the proper drivers and such, and then the item appeared in my inventory. So you don't even need to bother with getting around the driver issues that a lot of people have been running into, it seems...
Ironically enough my install (on a machine with an ATI card) worked fine, just the default driver really sucks which meant the game ran kinda slow. But it did run.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
How's that work? Do you not need to boot tf2 in Ubuntu, just Steam?
E: nm read the above post.
Emperor Bohe
Member
I posted this in the other thread, worth a shot here too. Does anyone know how to resize the disk space allocated to Ubuntu 12.10? I installed it under Windows with Wubi.. I can't install TF2 on Ubuntu because it says I don't have enough free disk space. But when I boot into Windows, I have more than enough, it's just not allocated to Ubuntu =/ Help please?
edit: or is there a way to install it onto an external hdd? (without changing anything on my Windows Steam)
edit: or is there a way to install it onto an external hdd? (without changing anything on my Windows Steam)
Ploid 3.0
Member
Ok I want to install linux because some guys here makes it seem like a pretty good OS, maybe better than WIN7 in use. Do I really need to shrink my main windows 7 partition? It's on a 1gig drive and I put everything I use on it (all my games take up a lot of the space). I have 300gigs free and I don't really want to make a separate partition and reinstall win7 on it's own to then shrink?
I don't want to lose stuff trying to shrink my hdd. If it simply makes a new 25gig partition from the free space that would be nice, but it sounds like it does something different (compress, alter, magic?).
I don't want to lose stuff trying to shrink my hdd. If it simply makes a new 25gig partition from the free space that would be nice, but it sounds like it does something different (compress, alter, magic?).
Dave Meltzer
Banned
From experience I can say messing with partitions can be tricky with Ubuntu. Your mileage will vary, hypothetically it should work fine and just dedicate space from your drive for Ubuntu, but your mileage may vary.
The easiest way to try it out is to dedicate a drive to it. You could just get a live CD or USB stick if you're not bothered about tf2.
The easiest way to try it out is to dedicate a drive to it. You could just get a live CD or USB stick if you're not bothered about tf2.
Ploid 3.0
Member
I have a 696 partition on another drive that I forced not to try to boot on startup because it had no OS stuff on it and would cause my PC to hang sometimes. Will dual booting work with that? It seems like I'll be in for a lot of the frustration of the old days like formatting, finding problems, and installing Windows with dos again.
Another question, when he says
he's not really talking about shrinking the data you already have on the windows drive but rather making a 25gb partition from that drive, right?.
Edit:
Ah, he should have updated his OP with the clearer version. Shrink the drive "by" 25gigs. So I guess I can just partition magic it or something similar. Nothing will be touched.
Another question, when he says
he's not really talking about shrinking the data you already have on the windows drive but rather making a 25gb partition from that drive, right?.
Edit:
Ah, he should have updated his OP with the clearer version. Shrink the drive "by" 25gigs. So I guess I can just partition magic it or something similar. Nothing will be touched.
As long as your files aren't spread out all over your disk, shrinking the partition to make room for something else won't be a problem. Since you'd be shrinking it from within Windows, it won't allow you to make a change that would result in data loss, but if you've got files that are located near the end of the disk, you'll only be able to shrink up to the end of where those are, so it may be a good idea to do a Defrag first.
Shrinking the partition isn't magic or compression, it just turns your free space into unallocated space which can be used by other partitions or operating systems. It does mean you'll end up with less free space in Windows though.
benjipwns
Banned
If you aren't intending on using Ubuntu/Linux I really suggest using VMWare Player, you can get a Ubuntu VM up and running in just a couple minutes.
source materials.gcf
source models.gcf
source sounds.gcf
source 2007 shared materials.gcf
source 2007 shared models.gcf
source 2007 shared sounds.gcf
team fortress 2 content.gcf
team fortress 2 materials.gcf
team fortress 2 client content.gcf
You probably need to rename them on Linux so each part is capitalized ala: Team Fortress 2 Content.gcf
Then verify the game cache. It'll still download some Linux specific stuff but that's only a few megabytes.
Copy over from Windows to /home/.steam/Steam/SteamApps:
source materials.gcf
source models.gcf
source sounds.gcf
source 2007 shared materials.gcf
source 2007 shared models.gcf
source 2007 shared sounds.gcf
team fortress 2 content.gcf
team fortress 2 materials.gcf
team fortress 2 client content.gcf
You probably need to rename them on Linux so each part is capitalized ala: Team Fortress 2 Content.gcf
Then verify the game cache. It'll still download some Linux specific stuff but that's only a few megabytes.
zer0blivion
Member
I ran into a similar problem, but I was able to resize it following these directions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeWubiDisk
You will need to use a live CD for this method. The live CD doesn't have to be Ubuntu either, you can use just about any one.
I got the airbud by pirating mac os, in virtual machine and installing steam. never owned a mac system.
http://www.tf2items.com/id/rubyus
EscapingJail
Member
Probably a bad idea to admit you pirated something.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Nope.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Impossible to say that at this point. Probably won't be because the market doesn't need another currency, but who knows.
Entirely depends on how many of them are in the wild at the end of the month.
Well I do not recommend it at all, even more for a Mac OS who is not really good on a regular PC. But I wanted to see if it was possible during my IT course.
I'm a anti pirate guy myself.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
I can say, a lot. There are many people that are obsessed with hats, and they have multiple accounts (15+), they will hoard a bunch of those, which will decrease the value.
Plus having a Linux OS is a lot easier than getting OSX.
I don't see this option in the program window.
Also has anyone successfully installed Ubuntu and had it work with their USB wireless adapter?
War Machine
Member
Mine works out of the box. You may need proprietary drivers, and have to get them through a wired connection.
a wired connection is not an option
apparently there's a driver in something called compat-wireless that might work, but am I reading this correctly in that I'm going to have to put in a bunch of commands to compile the driver or something?
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Well right now, there's 2.5k of them being tracked on stats.tf2, and there's nearly 60k earbuds. We'll see how they match up on March I guess.
Nope, you can install it anywhere, but you'll have to use the "Something else" option in the installer to select a different drive, which will also mean you'll have to manually do the partitioning.
Great, cheers.
jediyoshi
Member
If we want to be that optimistic, a hardware failure on valve's end could wipe out every tf2 item ever except for one person's tux which could then go on to be sold for a million bucks. It's really all up in the air.
ThatObviousUser
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Anybody wanting to give Linux an honest shot: install Gnome Shell first thing. It's far, far better than Unity (Ubuntu's default window manager), and a lot slicker and more polished feeling than other "classic" window managers (although if Gnome Shell doesn't do it for you, Cinammon is pretty good from what I've heard.)
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Is it good that I picked 10GB worth of size?
Trickytoon
Neo Member
Seconded - IMO this is mandatory on any new Ubuntu 12.x install.
You mean DE (well, shell, I guess, since both Gnome shell and Unity are shells for Gnome DE.) Window manager is something slightly different (ie, mutter, which Gnome Shell uses.)
Window managers that run by themselves are a lot more minimalistic and lightweight than DEs, like awesome or fluxbox.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
YES. DO THIS.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Bah, I tried 12.10 in virtualbox but it's slow. Same with 12.04. Any compatible Ubuntu versions that isn't slow in virtualbox (I always allot 4GB ram and 100MB vram).
Trickytoon
Neo Member
I have to be honest I had really high hopes for Steam on Ubuntu but my experiences this morning suggest that its nowhere near ready to challenge Windows as a gaming platform. I suppose that it's a chicken / egg situation and that over time if enough people jump on board things like drivers might improve, but there's still way too much work involved just to get the OS functioning to the point where a game can run. Follow this up with the horrendous performance I'm getting in a straightforward game like TF2 and I've really got no incentive to use Linux over Windows.
There is no gpu pass through in virtual box AFAIK., so graphics won't be so great.
Try using a different, more lightweight window manager like awesome or flux box.
it's sad because i wanted to try it and was sort of looking forward to messing around with Linux before this started.
not anymore
ThatObviousUser
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what flavor/distro were you using? Ubuntu, while not great, does work well with a wide range of hardware.
I'm currently installing Linux Mint (used the http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=117 edition) in VirtualBox. I'm hoping it works well enough to download/launch TF2 for the item. If I actually wanted to install Linux in a usable fashion I would probably go with a dedicated hard drive, though. =P
ubuntu
apparently it saw the device but didn't see it as a wireless connection device
don't know what to do about drivers
last I saw there was something called compat-wireless or something, but then I got to 3 near identical tar files and had no idea which one to get or how to install the drivers and there was a ton of command-line nonsense, so I threw up my hands and said screw it
trying to do it through vmware now
It took maybe 2 hours to download and install the Linux Mint ISO on VirtualBox. I imagine it would work, possibly better, on the VMWare Workstation free trial as well.
Linux and especially Steam is really slow in VirtualBox especially since I limited it to only one core and 1GB of memory, but it works, downloads games, sound works out of the box, and the install seamless using a virtual drive image.
A command like "sudo dpkg -i steamwhatever.dpkg" works for the installation package I believe. The only things I really ran into were one, at the very end of VirtualBox installation, my computer completely froze. Capslock light didn't respond, mouse didn't remove, power switch instantly powered it off. Once I booted it up again things were fine. Two, I was confused about my username since I -thought- I used caps, but the Linux username ended up being all lowercase.
I haven't gotten TF2 installed yet because I made the virtual disk image 16GB which is apparently slightly too small. I'll try to increase it to 20GB or something.
Linux and especially Steam is really slow in VirtualBox especially since I limited it to only one core and 1GB of memory, but it works, downloads games, sound works out of the box, and the install seamless using a virtual drive image.
A command like "sudo dpkg -i steamwhatever.dpkg" works for the installation package I believe. The only things I really ran into were one, at the very end of VirtualBox installation, my computer completely froze. Capslock light didn't respond, mouse didn't remove, power switch instantly powered it off. Once I booted it up again things were fine. Two, I was confused about my username since I -thought- I used caps, but the Linux username ended up being all lowercase.
I haven't gotten TF2 installed yet because I made the virtual disk image 16GB which is apparently slightly too small. I'll try to increase it to 20GB or something.
Yeah I think the OS takes up a few gigs of that, and TF2 is a 12+ gig download