steam - Valve's Steam digital software delivery system
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Description
Steam is a software content delivery system developed by Valve Software. There is some free software
available, but for the most part the content delivered is non-free.
Debian provides a wrapper script /usr/games/steam which will download and install the proprietary Steam
interface on-demand.
Name
steam - Valve's Steam digital software delivery system
Options
All options provided to the steam script are forwarded to the proprietary Steam client.
The options that are available change frequently, and unrecognised options are usually ignored. An
incomplete list is available from https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options#Steam.
Steam also accepts URLs with the steam: or steamlink: URL schemes. Some of the available actions are
documented in https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_browser_protocol.
Synopsis
steam [OPTIONS] [URL]
