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Title: Steam won't start on Ubuntu Mate 16.04

odd 28 Apr 2016

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Hi! I'm a Linux newbie and right now I'm testing some distros... I landed on Ubuntu Mate and I like it so far... much better than the vanilla Ubuntu experience with Unity. It even seems that I will stay with Mate but as you can read in the topic: My Steam won't start on Mate and I am to much of a noob to understand why. Can somebody help?

Thanks!

P.S. Maybe I should give you my specs: i7 4690k, AMD 290X, 16GB Ram

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Gerarderloper 30 Apr 2016

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Did you try removing the steam redundant lib32 files? (yes this is a terminal command)

find ~/.steam/root/ $ -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" $ -print -delete

You may need to run this again after each major update as steam loves downloading those old libraries (it also priorities them over newer ones).

PS. AMD 290x cards are not Linux friendly IMO, I have a 390x and performance is facepalming bad for allot of games, give it a shot anyway and let me know your experiences!

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odd 30 Apr 2016

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Thanks for the help... I'll try and tell you the results. And yes, you're right... the 290X is performing very bad on Linux... it's a shame till it's a very potent card. I hope that the coming new drivers by AMD will be more sofisticated. It will sadly take some time... aprox. 6 month, I read. And I even don't know if they will support the R9 200 cards :-(

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odd 2 May 2016

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Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I've been busy in the weekend.... So to the problem itself:

It worked! And I really have to delete the libraries after every Steam update. And Steam will always tell me, that the installed version is outdated and that I should get the newest one. Is it to Valve to fix this problem or is it Ubuntu related, only. What kind of libraries are these?

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vermillion 2 May 2016

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An alternative to deleting the bundled files is to use LD_PRELOAD to specify that the executable should look elsewhere for them. I've modified the .desktop file for steam to use this command.
sh -c "LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' DISPLAY=:0 steam"
This method will continue working after steam updates itself.

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