https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40802
--- Comment #5 from david da_legit_dubya@yahoo.com --- Typical technician's syndrome. The last time I was here, I got all the way to putting in the URL in the repos section of synaptic (graphical), & it claimed the URL didn't exist. This time around I got this message:
The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
So I installed that and this time everything went smoothly.
But now my major concern is Multiarch, since Steam uses 32-bit code (and I have a 64-bit system). The reference page implied that since wine-builds does not at present use source code, I wouldn't have worry about compilation - and compilation is only mentioned in reference to Multiarch. Does 'add-architecture i386' simply augment Wine's functionality - or is it part of Multiarch and more involved?
After my last post, I thought I'd install the Debian version of Steam - until I kept getting error messages because of useless drivers Valve included (e.g. libgcc++, etc.). A web search showed dozens 'solutions' marked "SOLVED" on message boards which indicated the best answer was to remove said files. Until my browser stopped loading and not even apt-get worked in the terminal. So I had reinstall everything -from scratch - the OS too.
So - thank you, Ms. R.