If you are running archlinux why not use the aur package rather then blating files all over your root partition?
because my system is out of date, and i can't use AUR because it can't find required dependencies.
however, i found what was the problem. installed libpng-1.2, and it started. the bug can be closed now.
it still failed to start in the end because it requires newer nvidia drivers, which require newer kernel, etc, etc.
oh well, i'm out of steam for now.
Why are you keeping your system out of date? Allot of the benefit to being
on Archlinux is up to the minute updates :)
On 21 December 2012 18:26, oleksiyy [email protected] wrote:
it still failed to start in the end because it requires newer nvidia
drivers, which require newer kernel, etc, etc.
oh well, i'm out of steam for now.—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/234#issuecomment-11622336.
Michael Daffin [email protected]
i'm not a fan of the "update every day" approach. i only update when i can't run software which is critically needed. fortunately, steam is not one of them :)
steps to reproduce the problem:
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
mkdir steam
cd steam
ar x ../steam_latest.deb
tar zxvf data.tar.gz
sudo cp -r usr /
$ steam
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1352224866_client)
that's it, nothing happens. steam process is not in running.
my system
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.3.7-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.7.0 20120505 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 21 22:39:59 UTC 2012
$ uname -a
Linux lazer 3.3.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 21 22:39:59 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
$ lspci | grep -i vga
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260](rev a1)
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model\ name | head -n 1
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz
$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
2.24.10
$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-3.0
3.4.3
i don't know what other information is needed.. it's a fairly standard Arch Linux i686 running on Dual Xeons 3GHz with 2Gb of RAM, geforce gtx 260, plenty of disk space, etc.