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Ubuntu 22.04 steam won't launch

steamclosed Distro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8565 · opened 2022-05-02 by elias2500 · updated 2022-05-23 · 3 comments · github
Eelias2500 2022-05-02 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date):
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): ubuntu 22.04
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] n
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] y

I clicked on the steam app icon and it did nothing. I then followed this. Reached the point of

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

and then :

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libpipewire-0.3.so.0

And then: Failed to load steamui.so

Then found this there is no beta file or directory to delete.

What's next for me?

NOTE: Steam used to launch and i also was successful on installing and playing a game. This happened out of the blue.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-05-02 github

Hello @elias2500, disabling the Steam runtime is not supportable. If you run steam from a terminal, does the terminal spew give any hints?

Also, can you check if any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo from a 32 bit build of mesa-utils works? Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't provide a 32 bit build of this package on 22.04, so maybe try unpacking https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/i386/mesa-utils/download with an archive utility and using the utility without installing it to the system.

Eelias2500 2022-05-02 github

UPDATE
Running steam by clicking the application icon from the "applications menu" started steam but didn't start the steam GUI. As a result when I ran:

steam

I got:

steam.sh[7394]: Running Steam on ubuntu 22.04 64-bit
steam.sh[7394]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[7464]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[7394]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

but when running:

steam

with the process killed, steam launches normally.

@kisak-valve Thanks for the comment! But cause I am not very advanced using ubuntu I don't know what any of this means:

"Also, can you check if any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo from a 32 bit build of mesa-utils works? Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't provide a 32 bit build of this package on 22.04, so maybe try unpacking https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/i386/mesa-utils/download with an archive utility and using the utility without installing it to the system."

DDanGdl 2022-05-23 github

Hi
is there any way to install those libs on Ubuntu 22.04:
libc6:i386
libegl1:i386
libgbm1:i386
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
libgl1:i386
libnvidia-gl-470:i386
steam-libs-i386:i386 ?

on launch steam requests those libraries but it can install them
Thanks