Preface

After around 2 or 3 months of my first ever install of Linux From Scratch, I had an question: how do I install Steam on this? After some time, I went for Beyond Linux From Scratch, a very great book that covered most of what I both wanted and needed, but my Steam question never got answered. So I just tried to install the Steam tarball and I went down the rabbit hole.

Beyond Linux From Scratch didn't show how so I felt alone and on my own. I learned shortly after my attempt that I need multilib, and Bruce Dubbs saw my email and responded quite promptly saying to go to Thomas' Multilib mirror. This made all the difference, but now I needed to find out all the packages to install, all the configuration.

Rahul Chandra in the same thread mentioned his scripts for his distro, Tucana. These scripts helped so much, even if all the scripts were presented all at once. Once I had got Steam to work, I realized that in some way, somehow, I must share how I did it and to help others with a single comprehensive guide.

At some point, I also decided to try to get Wine to work. I was successful. I, again like with Steam before, wanted to share the process. Rahul reached out to me, and that led to this book's creation and editing.

Thank you, and I hope this helps you.