Running Steam on Ubuntu 16.04 (amd64)

If you try to install the Steam app to access great games on Ubuntu 16.04, you will find that it does not work out-of-the-box.

After searching the web for a few tips and tricks, I finally managed to make it run.

• Install the i386 architecture (sudo apt-get install libc6:i386)
• Install the default debian package from the Steam website (http://store.steampowered.com/about/)
• Create a small script to launch Steam

Steam.sh

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' DISPLAY=:0 steam

• Make the script executable: chmod +x Steam.sh
• Execute your script

It's sad that we need to apply this workaround until the Steam team does provide a better package, but it does work.