---
name: "steam"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "steam-installer"
version: "1:1.0.0.83~ds-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/steam"
---

# steam(6)

Valve's Steam digital software delivery system

## NAME

steam - Valve's Steam digital software delivery system

## SYNOPSIS

**steam** \[*OPTIONS*\] \[*URL*\]\

## DESCRIPTION

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⟩.

## AUTHOR

Steam is maintained by Valve, and is proprietary software.

This manual page was written by Simon McVittie for the Debian project (and may be used by others) as a replacement for the non-free man page provided by Valve.