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Installation Failure

steamclosed Distro Family: UbuntuDistro-provided steam package
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5295 · opened 2017-12-20 by didasy · updated 2020-06-05 · 6 comments · github
Ddidasy 2017-12-20 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): From Ubuntu Repository
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu Mate 16.04
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

sudo apt install steam
[sudo] password for didasy: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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:
 steam:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

System spec:

  • Intel i5-7200U
  • Intel HD 620

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. sudo apt install steam
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-12-20 github

Hello @JesusIslam, ubuntu's package manager has these packages. Have you enabled multiarch with something like:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Ddidasy 2017-12-21 github

@kisak-valve Hello, I've done it but it still returns the same thing:

sudo apt install steam
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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:
 steam:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Maybe I should add that Steam install and works fine on my other laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X240 running Ubuntu 16.04, but not Ubuntu Mate 16.04

Ttimvisee 2017-12-24 github

I'm experiencing the same, on a recently installed Mac Mini 2012 running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.

Ggorky 2019-04-23 github

https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpRequest/HT-T6VG-YH7X-K6T3
It's an Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19. Laptop is an older one. Steam was running fine on Mint 18/Ubuntu 16, but died when I upgraded to Mint 19.

System spec:

  • Intel i5-4210U
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-05-01 github

Hello, is anyone still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

In general, consulting your distro's community support is the best way to get help with package manager issues, but if you are, please add the output of apt policy libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 and we can try to ponder the issue a little bit more.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-06-05 github

Closing as outdated.

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