Steam Installation

This will require enabling an external repository.
If you enabled "Third Party Software" (rpmfusion Nonfree) at installation you can skip to installing Steam.

Using the terminal

Enabling the external repository (rpmfusion Nonfree)

  • Launch The terminal prompt of your choice

  • Run the following command with a user that has root acess or can use the sudo command

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm -y
sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1

For older versions (Fedora 40 and lower):

sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264 -y

Installing Steam

  • Run the following command with a user that has root acess or can use the sudo command

sudo dnf install steam -y

Using Software GUI Package Manager

Open Software under the Activities in the top left corner.

Software

Enabling the external repository (rpmfusion Nonfree)

  • Click the Menu Button (☰) on upper right corner and choose Software Repositories. (Circled red for visual aide)

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  • Scroll down to the bottom of the new window till you see “Fedora Third Party Repositories”.

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  • Enable "RPM Fusion for Fedora XX - Nonfree - Steam".

  • Close the window.

  • Click on the upper left corner (search icon).

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Installing Steam

Following installation requires you to be online.

  • Search for Steam and install it.

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  • Launch Steam.

Troubleshooting

Steam does not start after initial installation

In case you are not able to run Steam application after initial installation, please try running it from terminal via following command:

__GL_CONSTANT_FRAME_RATE_HINT=3 steam

Flathub installation

With Fedora 38 there is an issue where Steam installed from Flathub will not start. This issue is being tracked on the Fedora Discussion page

Enable Proton engine

Following installation requires you to be online.

  • Open Steam and click Steam on the menu bar (upper left corner) and click Settings.

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  • Click Compatibility.

  • Check Enable Steam Play for supported titles.

  • Check Enable Steam Play for all other titles and select the Proton version you installed.

  • Press OK

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  • Restart Steam

Once Steam restarts all games in your Steam Library should be available to install and play.

Next steps

Install available title from the Library menu and play it.

It is recommended that games are checked on Proton games. This will give an idea of how well a game might run under Steam on Fedora.

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