Can't get Steam in Xubuntu 16.04LTS fresh install
Can't find Steam in Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager. Any ideas on how I can get it? Thanks.
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Then search
https://www.google.de/search?q=Ubunt...CIfnswHsu5fYBg and a possible solution can be found here: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-insta...4-xenial-xerus |
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gregory@gregory-GA-A55M-DS2:~/Desktop$ steam Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: r600 libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast |
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gregory@gregory-GA-A55M-DS2:~/Desktop$ steam Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: r600 libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast Any ideas? |
It looks like you need to install the drivers for your video card. What kind of card do you have?
Edit: Try doing this: Code:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 http://askubuntu.com/questions/61442...n-ubuntu-15-04 |
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gregory@gregory-GA-A55M-DS2:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 |
It looks like AMD has ended official Linux support for their proprietary drivers, as of Ubuntu 16.04. However, they have contributed substantially to the open-source drivers. Let's see if the default drivers are providing direct rendering.
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glxinfo | grep direct |
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Have Canonical removed Steam from their repositories? With Debian it's just "apt-get install steam", surely it's the same with derivatives?
(Using Steam and a Steam Controller under Sid without anything outside of the Debian Repo's [apart from the NVIDIA driver but I don't need to do that]) |
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sudo apt-get install -f |
Gregg,
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As I mentioned I'm currently running the binary NVIDIA driver direct from NVIDIA and, additionally now I recall, I happen to be running VirtualBox from Oracle but I'd not recommend doing that until somebody is happy with their system and its stability. |
I agree that it's almost always best to use whatever's in the repository, first. With Steam for Linux, I ran into some bugs with the Ubuntu packages in the early days, and found that it was more reliable to download the .deb directly from Valve. Maybe that's changed; but so far, I haven't run into any problems with this method.
Either way, I think the OP is running into some kind of dependency problem that may or may not have been addressed by the installer .deb. r600_dri.so appears to be a graphics library. Doing some additional searching around, it looks like the problem stems from Steam including some libraries with its software that are outdated or incompatible with the other ones on the system. It's possible that the Ubuntu repo's .deb has fixed this. The solution to this problem, as described by Google searches is to remove Steam's built-in versions of the C++ library and compiler, which will cause it to use the OS's versions, and, presumably, build the missing library. Note that you may also have to "sudo apt-get install build-essential". Code:
rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 |
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gregory@gregory-GA-A55M-DS2:~/Desktop$ glxinfo | grep direct |
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