Games

Installing Steam

From the command line:

   curl -O http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb
   sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb

Then launch Steam from the application launcher. Your user must be in the "sudo" group (if it is not, the dpkg command above will also fail), so that the installer can do all the things it needs to do.

Installing Minecraft

From the command line:

   sudo bash
   apt_get_install default-jre
   curl -o /usr/local/bin/Minecraft.jar \
     https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.jar
   curl -o /usr/share/pixmaps/minecraft.png https://chrx.org/minecraft.png
   mkdir -p /usr/local/share/applications
   cat > /usr/local/share/applications/minecraft.desktop <<EOF
   [Desktop Entry]
   Type=Application
   Name=Minecraft
   Comment=Minecraft
   Exec=java -jar /usr/local/bin/Minecraft.jar
   Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/minecraft.png
   Categories=Game;
   EOF