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Installing Steam on Fedora

These instructions are currently for Fedora 30. I'll update them over the releases if anything changes.

Open Software

Press the Win/Super key, type software and press Enter.

Enable the Third party and Steam repositories

Click the Menu Button (☰) and choose Software Repositories. Now enable "Third Party Software" and "RPM Fusion ... Steam"

Open a terminal

Press the Win/Super key, type terminal and press Enter.

Make sure your system is up to date

sudo dnf update --refresh

Also it doesn't hurt to reboot to make sure you're on the latest linux kernel.

Install the steam package

sudo dnf install steam -y

Open steam

You can either open it from Activities or press the Win/Super key, type steam and press Enter.

Accept the agreement and it'll download the latest version of Steam.

Any problems?

Feel free to comment below.

@abhishekKumar1
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abhishekKumar1 commented Mar 14, 2020

I'm having a hard time installing this. Whenever I try, I get a whole lot of conflicting files like this:

file /usr/share/doc/glibc/NEWS from install of glibc-2.30-10.fc31.i686 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.30-5.fc31.x86_64

What can I do to resolve this issue?

I found the problem with my system. The problem was with dnf upgrade had failed to complete previously. So I re-installed all the packages and then installed steam. Commands:

# package-cleanup --cleandupes
# dnf install steam

You can read more about this in this answer https://superuser.com/questions/994151/conflicts-between-new-32-bit-and-old-64-bit-packages-when-installing-rpmfusions

@mattcristal
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mattcristal commented Mar 14, 2020

It worked well for me, thanks :)

@itsnanobug
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itsnanobug commented Apr 30, 2020

Hello.
I'm new at Linux, and I just installed it on Fedora Workstation 32 without any issues.
Thanks!

@Pverte
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Pverte commented May 15, 2020 

$ steam
Running Steam on fedora 31 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
/home/pverte/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[2020-05-15 11:24:42] Startup - updater built Feb 11 2020 19:26:28
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
/home/pverte/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh : ligne 722 : 15855 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)$STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

Can somebody help me ?

@mrjohnc
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mrjohnc commented Aug 14, 2020

Please could you include uninstall instructions on this page including deleting any directories? I've found that uninstalling Steam games leaves a lot of space taken up, this happens even if I uninstall Steam

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ghost commented Sep 10, 2020

This didn't work for me. Don't know what I was doing wrong, but this is what I ran that installed it correctly.

sudo dnf update; sudo dnf upgrade; sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories; sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled rpmfusion-nonfree-steam; sudo dnf install steam.i686; sudo dnf update; sudo dnf upgrade; sudo dnf autoremove; reboot

May be overkill for some people, but it covers all the bases in my opinion.

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legotrucks1 commented Sep 17, 2020

i'm a newbie in linuxland so i'd like to know what sudo dnf update --refresh does, especially the "update --refresh" part

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adityamwagh commented Sep 27, 2020 •
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i'm a newbie in linuxland so i'd like to know what sudo dnf update --refresh does, especially the "update --refresh" part

Hey @legotrucks1

That command will fetch the list of all packages and check whether any new ones are available, and update them if that's the case.

TIP Try to always use sudo dnf upgrade --refresh since it will clear obsolete packages so that they won't create any issue in future.

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cuvtixo commented Dec 14, 2020 •
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i'm a newbie in linuxland so i'd like to know what sudo dnf update --refresh does, especially the "update --refresh" part

I don't regularly use Fedora myself, but I'd suggest searching answers at a place like https://manjaro.site/linux-ultimate-guide/fedora-tutorial/ I don't want to be unfriendly, but asking about sudo dnf update is a really basic question that you probably shouldn't be asking on a Github Gist site. Most newbie-friendly distros use "sudo apt update" and it will be explained near the beginning of any Debian-derived (and therefore Ubuntu-derived) introductory text. Okay honey?

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feldim2425 commented Dec 14, 2020

I don't know why. But I can't run games using Proton when using the default Desktop Launcher, only when using the terminal to start steam. If I use the desktop launcher the games will immediately stop again. Running Linux native games works fine.

@RomanDovgii
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RomanDovgii commented Jul 16, 2021

Well, Steam starts but doesn't show its UI. Strange thing.

@FrogmanFL
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FrogmanFL commented Aug 15, 2021

The command sudo dnf install steam -y wil not work for Fedora 34 server. the page did not say if it was for workstation or server. I'm running the server, using ssh login page

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pandal34r commented Oct 31, 2024

└─[$] <> sudo dnf install steam -y
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:48 ago on Thu 31 Oct 2024 09:15:08 AM WIB.
No match for argument: steam
Error: Unable to find a match: steam

HELP!!!!

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ghost commented Jan 14, 2025

Thanx man

@fissh385
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fissh385 commented May 18, 2025

just run this:

__GL_CONSTANT_FRAME_RATE_HINT=3 steam

I found that on the official fedora docs

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