Steam downloads refuse to operate via proxy

[JupiterSky11]

I've started steam by running proxychains steam, yet the content downloading system in steam isn't getting threaded through my proxy server. I've found the process via nethogs that is downloading stuff, but I'm not sure how to interrupt that connection via proxychains. Is that something I can do, and how might I do it?

[rofl0r]

steam uses a mix of 64 and 32 bit binaries, but on linux preloading works via a single enviironment var LD_PRELOAD, and so far no solution is known to inject 32bit proxychains into 32bit process and 64 bit into 64bit process.
possibly when the steam installer is launched on a pure 32bit system (e.g. debian i386), then steam will download only 32 bit versions of binaries to make it work with proxychains too. but someone would need to try it out.

[JupiterSky11]

I see, thanks for the help. I'm going to try some other solutions like installing steam in a sandboxed environment that I run via proxychains, but we'll see how that goes.