How to install Steam on Ubuntu 17.10

Steam has revolutionized the world of videogames thanks to porting videogames of all kinds to computers with Ubuntu and any other Gnu / Linux distribution. Next we are going to tell you how to install Steam in the latest versions of Ubuntu. This it is valid for both Ubuntu 17.10 and other versions such as Ubuntu 16.04.3, the latest version of Ubuntu LTS.

But before installing, We have to configure Ubuntu so that not only the application but also the Steam games work correctly.

32-bit platform

Users who have Ubuntu 32-bit will not have a major problem in this part, but users who have a 64-bit version, possibly most of the users, will They will have to install 32-bit support for it to work properly as Steam is only for 32-bit platforms. To do this we open the terminal and write the following:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

This will update the entire distribution with the latest packages. Important because the next step will be to update the graphics card drivers.

Graphics Card Drivers

We have to update the drivers to the latest version possible. In this case, the steps will change depending on the brand of graphics card that we use. If we have an Nvidia or based graphics card, we have to open the terminal and write the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install nvidia-graphics-drivers-387 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig --initial

If on the contrary, we use AMD instead of Nvidia, then we have to open the terminal and write the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu

Steam installation

Now that we have all this done, we can install the official Steam application. The application is in the official Ubuntu repositories so we will only have to write the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install steam

This will start installing the official Steam client. After finishing, we have to go to the application, run it and enter our login data.