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wisemonkey
Asked: 2016-07-16 22:17:09 +0800 CST

Successfully installing Steam on Ubuntu 16.04 64Bit

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This question has been discussed so many times already but I've tried all those answers I still can't seem to get Steam running on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.

My system: i7 6700k, NVIDIA GTX 1070, Asus z170 Motherboard. I've installed proprietary Nvidia drivers (367.27)

I installed steam by downloading from steam website (first tried with repository version but that didn't work so I used website version) and I don't know how to remove/uninstall apps installed with sudo dpkg -i or similar method.

Upon running steam from command line I get:

Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/wisemonkey/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/wisemonkey/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

I'm trying to follow Problem with installing Steam on Ubuntu 15.04+ but it seems path mentioned in the mostly accepted answer has been changed, I've mesa related packages installed.

If this helps:

DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | grep -i direct

Outputs:

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyError: unable to open display :0

So I need to use

DISPLAY=:1 glxinfo | grep -i direct

And output:

direct rendering: Yes (with lot more info)
nvidia

2 Answers

  1. Ok so I don't like the way this turned out (I don't understand how to replicate the results).

    However here is in general what I've done, I tried re-installing NVIDIA drivers (while running X) obviously that failed, at this point I already has 32 bit libraries installed. On next restart I got blank screen (no way to boot). I unplugged Video card and connected on-board graphics, boot went through but it gave me prompt instead of X, I installed NVIDIA drivers and said yes to 32bit libraries. Reconnected my Video card, on next boot Steam started no issues.

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  2. I had the same problem. In my case, I renamed the library libstdc ++ .so. 6 for libstdc++.so.6.old in those folders:

    ./ubuntu12_32/steam steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
./ubuntu12_32/steam steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

    I hope I helped.

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