packages that contain headers and files required to build software with those libraries, and whose names end in -dev) as dependencies.

A single package, steamrt-dev, lists all the steam-runtime development packages (i.e. The Steam-runtime SDK relies on an APT repository that Valve has created that holds the packages contained within the steam-runtime. The container runtime is quite complicated, so we will needĪdditional information to be able to make progress The container runtimes have some known issues which do not need to be Please report issues to the steam-runtime issue tracker. With newer library versions: this is Steam Runtime version 2, codenamedĬontainer runtime is available as part of the Newer versions of Proton (5.13 or newer) use a container runtime Older versions of Proton (5.0 or earlier) use the same 'scout' Tools, which run Windows games on Linux systems. The Steam Runtime is also used by the Proton Steam Play compatibility Is referred to as the Steam container runtime, or as the This is implemented as a series of Steam Play compatibility tools, and Namespace (container) technology, to run games in a more predictableĮnvironment, even when running on an arbitrary Linux distribution which Most native Linux games available through Steam are also run in thisĪ newer approach to cross-distribution compatibility is to use Linux This is referred to as the LD_LIBRARY_PATH runtime. Using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Libraries from Steam Runtime 1 'scout' to the library loading path, The Steam client itself is run in an environment that adds the shared This is Steam Runtime version 1, codenamed scout after the Team Which is installed in ~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime. To achieve this, it uses a special library stack, the Steam Runtime, The Linux version of Steam runs on many Linux distributions, rangingįrom the latest rolling-release distributions like Arch Linux to older A binary compatible runtime environment for Steam applications on Linux.

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