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kailor
Asked: 2014-12-18 09:15:24 +0800 CST

I can't open steam and steam games on ubuntu 14.10

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When i had ubuntu 14.04 LTS the steam and dota2 were fine and i was playing with hours.

But since when i upgraded to ubuntu 14.10 the steam doesn't open and neither any steam games.

I reinstall it but nothing again! It doesn't show anything. Just doesn't open.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found the answer on http://chakraos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13247

    You have to do the following on terminal and if it doesn't work:

    rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1

    Go to the folder and found the first file and deleted it. The second file maybe it's not appearing.

    Open steam and wait to update.

    And it will work!

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  2. I too had the same problem.

    I fixed my issue by reinstalling Steam by downloading the official Steam .deb pkg & using

    sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb

    Then I switched to the latest video driver (nvidia~>361.42) under

    System Settings>Software & Updates>Additional Drivers

    Lastly, I rebooted & that seemed to fix Steam!

    Not sure if this played a part in fixing my issue, but I also installed package xserver-xephyr with 

    sudo apt-get install xserver-xephyr
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