[SOLVED] Getting Steam running

t3h_bunneh · 09-24-2017, 06:43 AM

First time in my life running slackware and while I am generally comfortable in the way it works and so forth, I've ran into a bit of a pickle that I can't figure out and my lackluster googling skills haven't helped me either. I try to run Steam but it needs to install some packages, just as listed in slackdocs, the issue is, that for me, it tries to do it with sudo apt-get, which of course doesn't work on this distro.

Tried to google my way out of this situation but found nothing relevant that would help̣. I downloaded steam through sbopkg, if that is relevant to this case. If anyone has relevant links to docs that show how to solve this etc, all of it is really appreciated!

kjhambrick · 09-24-2017, 06:58 AM

t3h_bunneh --

I am not a gamer by any stretch, but ...

Did you see the Steam HOWTO on the SlackDocs Site ?

I don't know what version of Slackware you're running nor the ARCH, but Alien Bob's 32-bit steamclient Package is available for 14.0, 14,1, 14,2 and current.

Note the note about 64-bit and Multilib.

As a rule, the SlackDocs Main Page Search Dialog in the Left-Hand NavBar can be VERY handy.

HTH.

-- kjh

jamison20000e · 09-24-2017, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by kjhambrick

t3h_bunneh --

I am not a gamer by any stretch, but ...

...

-- kjh

Funny you'd say stretch,,, is Slackware for gamers now?

kjhambrick · 09-24-2017, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Funny you'd say stretch,,, is Slackware for gamers now?

Of course jamison20000e, Slackware is pretty good for anything you want to do with it without any stretch at all

t3h_bunneh --

Another thing I neglected to mention are all the Steam-related posts here on LQ.

The search tool finds quite a few of them.

HTH and thanks for the opportunity to ammend to my previous post, jamison20000e

-- kjh

t3h_bunneh · 09-24-2017, 12:38 PM

Yeah, I did look at the slackdocks page for steam and I did make search for steam on here (little/nothing relevant came on). Decided to remove the steam package installed through sbopkg and just install the one from alienbob. I am running 14.2 btw. Anyway, alienbobs pkg gives me this error:

Quote:

Slackware 32-bit: Check the 'deps/<slackwareversion>' directory where you downloaded this package and install/upgrade the packages you find there.
Slackware 64-bit multilib: Install/upgrade the packages in the 'deps/<slackwareversion>/multilib' subdirectory instead.

With these lines afterwards:

Code:

Running Steam on slackware 14.2 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

The fun part in this is, that alienbobs steam index for 14.2 debs has only readme telling that the current version needs no debs.

I do have this system set as multilib and searching for multilib with slackpkg+ shows me that all the multilib pkgs are installed so that shouldnt be the issue. Any ideas?

bassmadrigal · 09-24-2017, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by t3h_bunneh

Code:

Running Steam on slackware 14.2 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

The fun part in this is, that alienbobs steam index for 14.2 debs has only readme telling that the current version needs no debs.

I do have this system set as multilib and searching for multilib with slackpkg+ shows me that all the multilib pkgs are installed so that shouldnt be the issue. Any ideas?

That file is located in the mesa package. Do you have the 32bit version of mesa installed? It's not enough to just install the multilib packages, you also need the compat32 packages, which are 32bit packages modified to work on a 64bit/multilib system. The only multilib packages are your gcc and glibc packages, everything else is either x86_64 or compat32.

You need to get all the packages from the slackware64-compat32 in his multilib directory.

t3h_bunneh · 09-24-2017, 02:44 PM

All thats already installed :/

bassmadrigal · 09-24-2017, 02:49 PM

What happens if you run /usr/bin/32/glxgears and/or /usr/bin/32/glxinfo? I'm thinking your multilib might be broke (or at least the compat32 packages installed with it).

t3h_bunneh · 09-24-2017, 02:50 PM

no such file or directory.

bassmadrigal · 09-24-2017, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by t3h_bunneh

no such file or directory.

Then you are missing, at a minimum, the mesa compat32 package, or its installation is broken.

What is the output of the following?

Code:

ls -la /var/log/packages/mesa*

t3h_bunneh · 09-24-2017, 03:27 PM

bash-4.3# ls -la /var/log/packages/mesa*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5298 Sep 20 2012 /var/log/packages/mesa-11.2.2-x86_64-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2736 Sep 21 18:50 /var/log/packages/mesa-compat32-11.2.2-x86_64-1compat3

bassmadrigal · 09-24-2017, 03:57 PM

Can you paste the output of the following? (Note, I added a 2 at the end of your line, because I assume it was just cut off in the copy/paste, but if it wasn't, I would suggest uninstalling that and reinstalling it)

Code:

cat /var/log/packages/mesa-compat32-11.2.2-x86_64-1compat32
ls -la /usr/bin/32/

enorbet · 09-24-2017, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Funny you'd say stretch,,, is Slackware for gamers now?

FTR I AM a gamer, have been for decades and for therapeutic reasons, that has increased dramatically in the last 2 years. Slackware has been and as far as I can see will always be my preferred platform for gaming because it does not enable any but the most basic services by default. Therefore even running KDE it has a very slender footprint.

To OP - Actually any Steam version you install will update to the latest runtime whether you want it to or not. This is a bit of a pita as somethimes updates break things but to Gabe and the Boys' credit, they soon autofix. Alien Bob's Slackbuild, like almost everything he does, works a treat.

tazza · 09-24-2017, 09:10 PM

When mine sometimes breaks (with the exact same message), the following works for me:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' DISPLAY=:0 steam

dugan · 09-24-2017, 09:16 PM

If you’re installing the proprietary NVidia drivers using the installer that you can download from NVidia.com, it will at one point ask you if you want to install the 32-bit compatibility libraries. You need to say yes.