Got a new PC and want to play games here.
World of Tanks already works – check the World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux, and now I want to install Steam.
It worked with no issues on Ubuntu a few years ago and I could play Civilization V there – so now let’s try to run it on the Arch setup.
Installation docs here>>>.
With a couple of issues – but it works here too.
Enable the multilib
repository. Edit /etc/pacman.conf
, and uncomment:
[multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Install Steam client:
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[setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -S steam
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VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Run it:
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[setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ steam Setting up Steam content in /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 106: VERSION_ID: unbound variable /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 106: VERSION_ID: unbound variable Running Steam on arch 64-bit /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 106: VERSION_ID: unbound variable STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Pins potentially out-of-date, rebuilding... /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 828: /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: No such file or directory Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
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okay…
“Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: No such file or directory” – why?
The first discussion googled here>>>.
Try to enable steam-native
(although I have the commonsteam-runtime
installed – check here>>> for details):
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[setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ export STEAM_RUNTIME=1
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Doesn’t works.
Another discussion found here>>>.
Let’s try – edit the /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
:
... function detect_release() { if [ -f /etc/lsb-release ]; then (. /etc/lsb-release; echo $DISTRIB_RELEASE) # elif [ -f /etc/os-release ]; then elif $(grep 'VERSION_ID' /etc/os-release > /dev/null 2>&1); then (. /etc/os-release; echo $VERSION_ID) elif [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then cat /etc/debian_version else # Generic fallback uname -r fi } ...
Run again:
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[setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ steam Running Steam on arch 4.20.11-arch2-1-ARCH 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled by the user Pins up-to-date! /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 829: /home/setevoy/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: No such file or directory Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
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Okay… A bit better now.
Next googling led me to this>>> discussion – let’s try it:
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[setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -S multilib/lib32-nvidia-utils
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Aha!
What’s interesting – the VERSION_ID
errors still present:
But Steam works now.
Can’t run Civilization yet – but will figure it out.