[SteamOS] Installing PlayOnLinux

Overview

Short guide to install PlayOnLinux on SteamOS. The credit for this guide goes to Xaero, fellow Steam Universe forum member.

Preparations

This guide assumes you have already enabled and configured the Debian repository sources. You will possibly need these to install prerequisite packages.

SteamOS-Tools readme instructions.[github.com]

POL will let you download any version of 32 or 64-bit wine, including the latest 1.7.38 as well as the special CSMT versions for faster FPS game performance in many games. Furthermore, it lets you have multiple versions of wine installed in separate prefixes, for cases where a particular game works with an older wine version but not the latest.

When you install something via “Install” > “Install a non-listed program”, make sure you check “Use another version of Wine” then select the one you have installed, which is not “System” (since you don’t have a system-wide installed). You have to do this with every program you manually install via POL.

Installing PlayOnLinux

To install PlayOnLinux, open a Terminal window back up and entering the following commands:

sudo apt-get install but
git clone [link]
cd SteamOS-Tools
./configure-repos.sh
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

After installing playonlinux, you may notice that processing the libattr:i386 package fails when you attempt to install the package via sudo ‘apt-get install playonlinux’. Issuing apt-get install -f does not fix this. You will need to remove the change log until Valve fixes this.

Remove the change logs and try again:

sudo rm -f /usr/share/doc/libattr1/changelog.Debian.gz
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Even given the above, I HIGHLY suggest you read the PlayOnLinux page over at the wiki:

[link]

Conclusions

This guide merely details how to get PlayOnLinux installed. This does not detail the myriad of situations in installing applications or games themselves. If individuals wish to have a basic usage section, that can be added upon request.