April 2026
Installing Steam on Arch Linux
Get Steam running in 2 minutes
Steam requires multilib, Arch's 32-bit package repository. It's disabled by default.
Enable multilib
First, open your pacman config. If you don't have a text editor installed yet:
sudo pacman -S nano
Then open the config:
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
Scroll toward the bottom and uncomment these two lines by removing the #:
multilib
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Save with Ctrl+O, exit with Ctrl+X, then sync and update:
sudo pacman -Syu
Reboot when it finishes.
Install Steam
sudo pacman -S steam
Configure Proton
Open Steam, go to Settings → Compatibility and enable Steam Play for all titles. For the Proton version, the latest experimental release hasn't failed me yet.
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