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Remote install not working

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6762 · opened 2019-12-12 by jrial · updated 2019-12-12 · 0 comments · github
Jjrial 2019-12-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Dec 11 2019
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Linux Mint 19.3
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When purchasing games through the browser, you're presented with an option to remotely install the games you just purchased. Regardless of whether this is a browser on another machine, when I'm away from home, or the browser running on the same machine as Steam, this has never worked for me.

In case it matters, I always have my Steam client running in Big Picture mode.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Purchase a game through the browser and complete the purchase process
  2. You're presented with the option to remotely install it on the running Steam session on your computer
  3. Click this button
  4. Wait a couple of hours; I have no idea how fast the Steam client should pick this up
  5. Open the game in your library in the Steam client
  6. Verify that it's not installed.

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