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I'm unable to run (and probably install correctly) Steam on my girlfriend's PC running Ubuntu 16.04. Launching steam from terminal gives me:
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".[2017-01-03 12:33:39] Startup - updater built Jun 16 2014 11:16:02
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Then, I'm forced to kill steam process (which sometimes throw some "Steam bootstrap" errors)...
Steam was running fine on her previous PC (Intel CPU and integrated GPU, she mostly plays "hidden objects" games) with Ubuntu 14.04 (fresh install) and 16.04 (upgrade from 14.04), before I put the HDD (on which Ubuntu is installed) in a new PC (in fact, my old PC which has some dual core Intel CPU with a Nvidia GTS450, and on which Steam was running fine on both Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 fresh installs when it was mine).
I've tried a lot of fix which I found on Askubuntu and Steam forum involving conflicting library without success... I've tried to install Steam both by Ubuntu repositories and by Steam directly without success... As the problem arise with transition from integrated Intel CPU to Nvidia GTS450 I've tried different drivers (Nouveau and proprietary, with the graphical drivers ppa) and others GPU (I've some low cost AMD GPU, with the last ppa with last stable MESA)... without success.
If someone with more technical skills than me (which is not hard) has some clues for solving this problem... :|
PS : sorry for my poor English and hope it's the right forum section. :)
(you many need to restart after doing any of these)
find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
or
find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
or
delete steam folders
/home/<user name>/.steam/steam/
/home/<username>/.steam/
and reinstall Steam
Nop, it's a desktop with a dual core Intel GPU and a GTS450 (with graphic drivers ppa enabled), but I've also failed to install Steam on the same PC with some old AMD GPU (using last ppa with stable MESA). The HDD where the system (Ubuntu 16.04, upgraded from 14.04) is running was previously in a desktop with Intel CPU and GPU and Steam was running fine at that time... and I've been running Steam fine on the new hardware as it was my old PC (with 14.04 and 16.04, both fresh install). :)
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might be worth checking. not sure if thats the issue though
I'm pretty sure Xpander meant 32-bit libraries. Here's a tutorial (I'm not vouching for it though, I just googled it right now): https://blog.teststation.org/ubuntu/2016/05/12/installing-32-bit-software-on-ubuntu-16.04/
OTOH, your error output does seem to indicate there's something wrong with your graphics. What does
glxinfo | grep OpenGLsay? If it says not found install mesa-utils,I got this:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA CorporationOpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTS 450/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.26
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.26
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 375.26
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
Did you try purging the Nvidia driver and installing it again?
As far as I remember yes, because I performed a test with Nouveau (I read somewhere that Steam installation problems could be bypassed by installing it with Nouveau... but that was unfortunately a failure in my case). :)
Btw, thank you everybody for your help! :)
The not so great news is that as soon as I install a NVIDIA drivers (for the GTS450 GPU), be it from the official ppa or the "graphical drivers" one, Steam just refuse to launch with the same errors as before. >.<