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steam-installer has broken dependencies on Debian 12

steamclosed Distro Family: DebianDistro-provided steam package
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11600 · opened 2024-12-26 by clark9999 · updated 2024-12-26 · 2 comments · github
Cclark9999 2024-12-26 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 12/26/24
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Debian
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: N/A
  • GPU: Intel

Debian package steam-installer has broken dependencies, cannot be installed.

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
i386
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease                                                   
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease                                         
Hit:4 http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease                                                        
Hit:5 http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease                                                
Hit:6 https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable InRelease                                              
Hit:7 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease                                      
Hit:8 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg InRelease      
Hit:9 https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/apt/bookworm pgadmin4 InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt-get install steam-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libatomic1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.1.3) but it is not installable
 libbsd0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libcrypt1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.36) but it is not installable
 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libdrm-intel1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libdrm-radeon1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libdrm2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.33) but it is not installable
 libedit2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.33) but it is not installable
 libelf1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libexpat1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.36) but it is not installable
 libffi8:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libgcc-s1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.35) but it is not installable
 libgl1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libglapi-mesa:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libglvnd0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libglx-mesa0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libglx0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libgpg-error0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libicu72:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libllvm15:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.36) but it is not installable
 liblzma5:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libmd0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.33) but it is not installable
 libpciaccess0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.33) but it is not installable
 libsensors5:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.33) but it is not installable
 libstdc++6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.36) but it is not installable
 libtinfo6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libva-x11-2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.33) but it is not installable
 libva2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
               Recommends: va-driver-all:i386 but it is not installable or
                           va-driver:i386
 libx11-6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libxau6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-dri2-0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-dri3-0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-glx0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-present0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-randr0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-shm0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-sync1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb-xfixes0:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxcb1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.28) but it is not installable
 libxdmcp6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxext6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxfixes3:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxi6:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxinerama1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libxml2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libxshmfence1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.27) but it is not installable
 libxxf86vm1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
 libz3-4:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 libzstd1:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.34) but it is not installable
 steam-libs:i386 : Depends: libudev1:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libegl1:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libfontconfig1:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libgbm1:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libnm0:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libva-drm2:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libva-glx2:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libxdamage1:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: libxss1:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 but it is not installable
                   Recommends: va-driver-all:i386 but it is not installable or
                               va-driver:i386
 zlib1g:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
$ uname -a
Linux silverbird 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (2024-11-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$

Package version:


$ dpkg -s steam-installer | grep Version
Version: 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6
Config-Version: 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-12-26 github

Hello @clark9999, Debian's multiarch implementation requires that all arch variants of a package are exactly the same version, and it also dislikes downgrading packages.

Can you share the output of apt policy libc6 libc6:i386?

Cclark9999 2024-12-26 github

Hello @kisak-valve after you mentioned versions I checked my lib6 version and the package webpage, they did mismatch. After making some test I found out the problem to be between my proxy and Debian's mirrors. So my apt-get wasn't able to find the last version of libc6

Changing the mirror and trying in another network fixed the issue.

Apt policy was normal:

$ apt policy libc6 libc6:i3866
libc6:
  Installed: 2.36-9+deb12u9
  Candidate: 2.36-9+deb12u9
  Version table:
 *** 2.36-9+deb12u9 500
        500 http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libc6:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.36-9+deb12u9
  Version table:
     2.36-9+deb12u9 500
        500 http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian bookworm/main i386 Packages

Thank you for the reply, specially for mentioning the version. This can be closed now.

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