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#1 2014-07-22 09:42:57
- shoober420
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[Solved] Steam is outdated
Is it a problem that the Steam package from the official repository is outdated? If I simply update Steam after I install the package, will it fully update it to version 1.0.0.48? Its currently version 1.0.0.47-2 and flagged outdated in red.
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#2 2014-07-22 09:55:22
- WorMzy
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Re: [Solved] Steam is outdated
Yes, it's fine. As I understand it, the steam package is mostly there to manage dependencies and provide a way of bootstrapping the steam installation proper. Steam installs itself into $HOME/.local/share/Steam when you first launch it, and checks for new versions every time you open it.
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#3 2014-07-23 09:30:28
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Re: [Solved] Steam is outdated
Okay cool. I run Steam with "STEAM_RUNTIME=0", so I use my system packages instead of the runtimes. I want Steam to use the latest and greatest packages, instead of the older bundled ones in the runtime. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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#4 2014-07-23 11:06:22
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Re: [Solved] Steam is outdated
Okay cool. I run Steam with "STEAM_RUNTIME=0", so I use my system packages instead of the runtimes. I want Steam to use the latest and greatest packages, instead of the older bundled ones in the runtime. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
It's not really good idea, as most of the games on Steam is (or at least should be) build against Steam Runtime.
Also, mark it as [solved].
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#5 2014-07-23 11:32:26
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Re: [Solved] Steam is outdated
shoober420 wrote:Okay cool. I run Steam with "STEAM_RUNTIME=0", so I use my system packages instead of the runtimes. I want Steam to use the latest and greatest packages, instead of the older bundled ones in the runtime. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
It's not really good idea, as most of the games on Steam is (or at least should be) build against Steam Runtime.
Also, mark it as [solved].
Yes you'll only waste time hunting down dependencies for no gain. There are no performance improvments from using your systems libX compared to what's bundled with steam. New libs won't make your GPU render faster.
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#6 2014-07-24 04:12:18
- shoober420
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Re: [Solved] Steam is outdated
Well, I'm just picky like that. I feel alot of satisfaction and reward, knowing I was able to manually get Steam running without the runtime, and it using the latest packages.
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