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Distribution: Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, Gallium, Ubuntu Armbian (headless), Arch (learning)
Posts: 138
Rep:
Steam not running.... at all.....
I am on mint 18.2 and I have installed steam and it will not run at all. Nothing happens when I run it in the GUI and when I try to start it in terminal I get this awesome error....
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
find: ‘/home/dell/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or directory
Does anyone have any ideas? I have already tried removing it and reinstalling the package files (in terminal).
Thanks!
Travo
Last edited by mr.travo; 10-14-2017 at 01:10 AM.
Reason: Listed wrong version number.....
There's a problem with that. The correct output is below
Code:
bash-4.3$ file /mnt/hd/LinuxPackages/aaa_elflibs-14.2-x86_64-31.txz
/mnt/hd/LinuxPackages/aaa_elflibs-14.2-x86_64-31.txz: XZ compressed data
bash-4.3$ ls -lh /mnt/hd/LinuxPackages/aaa_elflibs-14.2-x86_64-31.txz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dec users 6.0M Aug 15 19:46 /mnt/hd/LinuxPackages/aaa_elflibs-14.2-x86_64-31.txz
Try the second command (ls -lh), and, if you come up with nothing, gradually back upp on the /full/path/to/archive_name from the right. So your next try would be ls -lh /full/path/to.
Hi again; thanks for friending me Haven't seen you back since #6 above.
Did you 'get' that #6 intended:
Use like 'Doe, John', instead of typing in a name like literally: "Last, First"
Substitute real for example:
/home/travo/something...
Also fyi, never literally type in < or > (which are shell i/o 'redirection'), like in:
/<FullPathToSomething>
#4 was 'pseude-code', not literal Code: (read that link to discover 'magic' BB code; link also at bottom of pages!!!)
Hastebin (Idk but like Pastebin) means: browse (or websearch) <it>.com
Like: file .??* | nc termbin.com 9999
Need more ultra-exact specific details, like what file, what command, ...
p.s. With your steamGUI, you've gone way beyond my $20netbookCLI VBoxWorld
I forgot the first half of the post. Check the output of the file command on your steam archive and the output of'ls -lh, as I'm suspicious of the archive. What In showed wan a typical archive output. Post your results.
Distribution: Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, Gallium, Ubuntu Armbian (headless), Arch (learning)
Posts: 138
Original Poster
Rep:
Sorry for the lag in time between posts. I guess this is above my knowledge at this time. I need to learn more about the prompt and commands before I continue. I don't want to waste everyone's time trying to train me. When I understand more about what you are wanting me to do, I will return.
Thanks for the help and sorry, I just don't understand it all yet....
Distribution: Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, Gallium, Ubuntu Armbian (headless), Arch (learning)
Posts: 138
Original Poster
Rep:
OK!!!
So Windows 10 finally pushed me over that cliff.... I saved what little I had worth keeping on there and deleted it. I went ahead and formated my HDD and started over with a fresh install of Mint 18.2. I updated everything I could and brought my machine up to date.
I followed this guide and Steam is now up and running! My install process *did NOT* freeze like they said it would. I guess Steam has addressed that issue.
Maybe this guide will help someone else that is banging their head against the wall with this issue.
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