steam fails to run after installer finishes

[steve7233]

I downloaded and installed steam but it failed to start after installation. I tried launching from the KDE menu but no start. I just thought to try running from the Konsole. I will try that and see what it says...

steve7233@steve7233-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 16.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
/bin/bash: /home/steve7233/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /bin/bash)
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1476379980)
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

[sithlord48]

maybe this will help you
http://askubuntu.com/questions/61442...n-ubuntu-15-04

[steve7233]

maybe this will help you
http://askubuntu.com/questions/61442...n-ubuntu-15-04

None of those worked. Thanks for trying. Anybody else wanna try?

[steve7233]

Anyone?

[vinnywright]

uninstall the one you downloaded and install the one in your package manager .

we have the steam installer in the repos

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

That's what works for me, VINNY!

[steve7233]

whats the name of the package to uninstall? I wanted to try that but don't know the name of the package.

[GreyGeek]

whats the name of the package to uninstall? I wanted to try that but don't know the name of the package.

The name is steam-launcher
You can put stea in the search bar and it will be displayed.

[steve7233]

Thanks vinney,GreyGeek the problem is now solved. You would think that the steam / Linux devs would be embarrassed to learn that their package doesn't work, but Ubuntu's package will work!

Downloading Transport Fever -launched last month -to my lap top. Unfortuntly, their is no steam cloud support yet. I can't play the same game on my WindoZe box and on my Linux box... Well not easily anyway.

[steve7233]

Correction Transport Fever released on Nov 8th. I was thinking of Civilization VI which released on October 25th.

[GreyGeek]

Steam's Universe Sandbox^2 is an awesome program! I also enjoy Castle Story. I showed my 10 yr old Grandson Portal. He operated it intuitively, playing it and figuring out solutions faster than I could think.


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