Is it possible to install Steam on Jammypup?

[rowhat1]

I have been trying downloading steam from PPM but steam wont open. Then I discovered that if I put steam directly on terminal it gives me some feedback and thats what it displays:

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# steam
steam.sh[17922]: Running Steam on puppy_upupjj+d 22.04 32-bit
steam.sh[17922]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[17992]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam-runtime-check-requirements[18050]: E: Cannot run /root/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/srt-bwrap: wait status 32256
steam-runtime-check-requirements[18050]: E: Diagnostic output:
/root/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/srt-bwrap: /root/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/srt-bwrap: cannot execute binary file

steam.sh[17922]: Error: Steam on Linux now requires the ability to create new user namespaces.

If the file /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone exists, check that
it contains value 1.

If the file /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces exists, check that its
value is high enough.

This requirement is the same as for Flatpak, which has more detailed
information available:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/User-namespace-requirements
/root/.steam/debian-installation/steam.sh: line 85: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: unbound variable

Is there any solution to this?

[rockedge]

Is there any solution to this?

It appears that it is possible a kernel swap will fix it. The kernel needs to be configured at compile to use user namespace features. I might be wrong but that is what I am guessing after a quick look.

[rowhat1]

Is there any solution to this?

It appears that it is possible a kernel swap will fix it. The kernel needs to be configured at compile to use user namespace features. I might be wrong but that is what I am guessing after a quick look.

which kernel do you think would be compatible with steam? I have a 32bit procesor

[rockedge]

@rowhat1 After examination it looks like we might fix it with using a terminal and the command line.
It is a long shot but try:

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echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf
service procps restart

[rowhat1]

Hi! @rockedge i am giving up trying to solve many problems like this one on my Jammypup linux... do yo know if is there another Puppy Distro for 32 bits procesor that doesn't have this kind of problem on it? I couldn't even install Haskell before. Is this normal to have all this problems when we are working with Puppy Linux?

[rowhat1]

@rockedge
I have made a little bit of research and its looks like my kernel supports user namespace features

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# zgrep CONFIG_USER_NS /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_USER_NS=y

And your previous solution didn't work either... Could it be that some SFS is missing?

By the way, this is what the terminal gave as output:

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# echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf
service procps restart
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1
/etc/init.d/procps: line 4: /lib/init/init-d-script: No such file or directory

[rockedge]

@rowhat1 I never have worked with Jammypup32. All of my 32 bit machines are old old and run nicely up to Bionicpup32. After that as support got less and less from upstream main stream Linux distros, I had reached a point the machines will just not run well or at all with "newer" 32 bit Puppy's.

What I would recommend for you is to try VoidPup32. As Void Linux still has robust support for 32 bit variants, and with the xbps package manager and upstream Void Linux repos you might find it a whole lot easier to get steam going on VoidPup32.

Does Steam still support 32 bit in Ubuntu/Debian? Lots of packages no longer are supported for 32 bit like most high end browsers aren't any more.

[dimkr]

Even if you find a 32 bit Steam, it's unlikely to work well. All the major distros are 64 bit and switched to Wayland, so everything that works well for others is not guaranteed to work well for you.

[rowhat1]

@rockedge Oh! I see... so I cannot expect more from a 32-bit PC. Well, I must accept it then, no problem! Thank you very much for your answers and recommendations! I will try those distros too.

Now that you mention it, maybe there is no way to run Steam on a 32-bit PC either, haha.

By the way, I have a strange love for Puppy, and maybe I will come back with more questions in the future, haha. Again, thank you very much for your patience and dedication!

[rowhat1]

@dimkr It's a shame then, but no problem! I was looking for a possible solution to this, but it looks like there is no way to run Steam, hehe. Thank you, too!