steam-runtime-tools — Steam Runtime integration for the Steam client
The steam-runtime-tools library provides low-level Unix-specific tools and functionality for the Steam client, including the pressure-vessel tool that runs Steam games in containers.
To support multiple architectures (currently only i386
and x86_64
are supported), you will need to build it once for each architecture and
install at least the helper tools in /usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0
(the libsteam-runtime-tools-0-helpers
package) for every architecture
in parallel.
The helper tools are located relative to the shared library, so it's OK to bundle steam-runtime-tools alongside some other stack in this layout:
anything/
lib/
x86_64-linux-gnu/
libsteam-runtime-tools-0.so.0
libexec/
steam-runtime-tools-0/
i386-linux-gnu-*
x86_64-linux-gnu-*
as long as the program that is linked to libsteam-runtime-tools-0.so.0
can find it (via a RPATH
or RUNPATH
or by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable).
pressure-vessel — putting Steam in containers
The pressure-vessel/
subdirectory of this project contains the
pressure-vessel utilities, which are used by Steam's
Steam Linux Runtime
compatibility tool to run games in individual game-specific containers.
For background on pressure-vessel and SteamLinuxRuntime, please see: