steam6

Usage

Overview

Steam ⟨https://www.steampowered.com/⟩ is a software content delivery system developed by Valve Software ⟨https://www.valvesoftware.com/⟩. There is some free software available, but for the most part the content delivered is non-free.

Debian provides a wrapper script /usr/games/steam which will download and install the proprietary Steam interface on-demand.

Options

All options provided to the steam script are forwarded to the proprietary Steam client.

The options that are available change frequently, and unrecognised options are usually ignored. An incomplete list is available from ⟨https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options#Steam⟩.

Steam also accepts URLs with the steam: or steamlink: URL schemes. Some of the available actions are documented in ⟨https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_browser_protocol⟩.