How to Install Steam on Chromebook - 2022

how to install steam on a chromebook welcome to another gauging gadgets chromebook tutorial video in this video i'm going to show you how to install steam on your chromebook so if you're looking to have steam maybe for messaging or to play some of the games on your chromebook in this tutorial i'll show you how to do that before we get started there's a couple requirements in order to be able to do this the first is we have to be able to enable the linux environment on our chromebook so we'll be going through those steps first if you have a 64-bit chromebook there's going to be a couple other steps that will be required of you in order to get steam to work maybe if you try this before you've seen an error related to 32-bit we'll go through and fix that if you already have linux turned on or you have a 32-bit machine you can check the chapters below to skip ahead alright so to get started the first thing we need to do is turn on the linux environment on our chromebook and we can easily do that by going down selecting the clock in the bottom right then in the menu that comes up select the gear for settings once the settings open go to the top and search linux lin ux select the first option and then you'll see linux development environment now if you do not see the linux development environment in here that means that your chromebook is probably not compatible with steam so you will not be able to install it using this method go ahead and turn it on if you're not already turn it on select next and then install so it's going to go through the process of installing linux this may take a couple minutes for it to do that while it's doing that open the chrome browser on your chromebook and we're going to go to steampowered.com that is the official website for steam you can check the description i'll have all the links i discuss down there as well as a detailed write-up once you get to steampowered.com go up on the top right where it says install steam and over here where it says install steam it'll say also available on you just want to go to the one that's right to the right of apple so that will be the linux version go ahead and select that and then save the file it's a very small download so it shouldn't take long all right once the linux installation screen closes and you see this black terminal that says penguin that means linux is done installing on your chromebook we are ready to go ahead and install steam on our chromebook so you can close the terminal then you just want to open up the file manager find that file that we downloaded from steem so it binds under the downloads area and then it's going to be right here first select that file then right click it and you should see install with linux go ahead and do that select install with linux it's going to load some details and then you just need to select install you'll then see the installation process in the bottom right of your screen once the installation is complete you'll see where it says the app is available in your terminal and you can also use the launcher so you have two options here you can open steam by selecting launch right here or you can go down to the launcher in the bottom left and find it in the launcher and select it so that's what i'm going to do select steam then open up a terminal you should see update steam runtime environment and then it will go through an installation and update process with steam so now we have steam installed if you have a 32-bit machine then steam should open with no issue at all and you can start enjoying it but if when you open up steam you get an error where it says you are missing the following 32-bit libraries then that's because you have a 64-bit chromebook and we need to do a couple other steps to actually get this to work so the first thing we need to do is just close this error close the terminal and go ahead and reboot your chromebook so go ahead and turn it off and then turn it on again all right so now that we've rebooted our chromebook there's just a couple things that we need to do in order to get steam to work on our chromebook so to get started we need to go down to the launcher down here and open up the terminal so that we can enter four commands that hopefully get steam working on our 64-bit chromebook and these commands will be down in the description so you can copy those down there and just paste them in and we're just going to be doing all four of these in order the first one is sudo app update paste that in then the second one down here all right then the third one sudo app upgrade and that one may take more time for you i've already ran this one you may be prompted to hit yes or no to install the upgrades go ahead and hit yes when you run that and then finally we have the last one paste that in hit enter and with this one you now just want to hit y on your keyboard and then hit enter and it'll go through and it'll install that all right once it gets to the bottom and it says penguin again that means we're good we can close the terminal you can select leave once we've closed the terminal we can now open up steam again and this time it should open you'll see updating steam and it's going to download the update to your chromebook and once you select steam for the first time it may take maybe 30 seconds for it to actually start loading the first time you run steam it may open several terminals and do several different loading screens like this all right so after a few minutes we get prompted with steam where we can actually log into our account so i'll go through that process select log in if you have two factor you'll have to go through that and then steam will open for you you can start using it and enjoying it on your chromebook all right so that's how you install steam on a chromebook if you have any questions about this leave a comment below get back to you as soon as i can if you'd like to see more chromebook tips and tutorials check the links in the description 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Id: P-ok2zxm22I

Length: 6min 33sec (393 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 03 2022