After installing the steam deb and there's a dialog box that pops up and tells you that you need to launch steam to finish installing for the current user. I clicked "Launch Steam" (or whatever the button says) and then nothing happened... After a while I got curious and grep'd out processes with steam in the name:
$ ps -ef | grep -i steam
mgalgs 2046 1 0 21:32 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/steam
mgalgs 2078 2046 0 21:32 ? 00:00:00 gksudo --disable-grab --message Please enter your password to complete the Steam installation. Steam needs to install these additional packages: jockey-common apt-get install jockey-common
mgalgs 2657 2316 0 21:38 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i steam
The issue is that I couldn't see that gksudo message box anywhere... I tried Alt-tab, minimizing everything, etc. to no avail.
All I had to do to work around this issue is run steam again, and this very well could be an Ubuntu bug, but you might want to make sure the install goes smoothly for users running the "Gnome Classic" Desktop Environment.
System: Ubuntu 12.10 (2-D "Gnome Classic (No Effects)" Mode (Not Unity))
After installing the steam deb and there's a dialog box that pops up and tells you that you need to launch steam to finish installing for the current user. I clicked "Launch Steam" (or whatever the button says) and then nothing happened... After a while I got curious and grep'd out processes with steam in the name:
The issue is that I couldn't see that gksudo message box anywhere... I tried Alt-tab, minimizing everything, etc. to no avail.
All I had to do to work around this issue is run steam again, and this very well could be an Ubuntu bug, but you might want to make sure the install goes smoothly for users running the "Gnome Classic" Desktop Environment.