Steam won't start on Ubuntu 14.04.1

[stefanmarkic]

When I click on the icon from the Launcher, nothing happens. When I enter 'steam' in Terminal, I get this:

steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140829154109_1.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
error: libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730:  6206 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
mv: cannot stat ‘/home/stefan/.steam/registry.vdf’: No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140829154110_1.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
error: libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730:  6332 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

What to do? I installed Steam from the Ubuntu Software Center.

[belarrius]

Hi!

You want ia32-libs i think.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

[oldrocker99]

14.04 no longer has ia32-libs. 32-bit libraries are still available, so, according to the message you got, try

sudo apt-get install libcurl:i386

If you're running any 32-bit program, and you get a missing library error, remember the name of the library (without the .so suffix) and place a :i386 after the library name, as I show above.

If it worked, please post here. If it didn't, by all means post here.

This is nowhere as simple as installing the old ia32-libs, but it's what you have to do to run 32-bit programs which complain of missing libraries

[R33D3M33R]

Try installing from http://store.steampowered.com/about/ and it might fix missing dependencies itself.

[stefanmarkic]

14.04 no longer has ia32-libs. 32-bit libraries are still available, so, according to the message you got, try

sudo apt-get install libcurl:i386

when I try to isntall it, I get this message:

Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libcurl

[stefanmarkic]

Try installing from http://store.steampowered.com/about/ and it might fix missing dependencies itself.

Exactly the same package is located in the Ubuntu Software Center.

[belarrius]

Hmmm

Try:

sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev

[oldrocker99]

I didn't look up the proper name for libcurl, my bad.

When you need to find the exact name of a file (in this example, libcurl):

apt-cache search libcurl

You can also pipe the output to grep (another example):

apt-cache search chrome | grep google

Since the search results in a number of files which contain 'chrome' in their title or description, piping through grep and looking for files with 'google' in the name limits the result just to files with that word in their name ot description.

[vpiercy]

So Steam won't work on the latest Ubuntu?

Should I install an earlier version of Ubuntu? Steam worked with 12.04 LTS.

0--------------------------0

UPDATE: I re-installed Steam via the steam_latest.deb as suggested in the post above (but identical file in the Ubuntu Software Store) and I ran the

sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev

in terminal.

Then I tried to run a Steam shortcut for a game, got the usual "Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so" when I try to launch a Steam game in Xubuntu 14.04. Then I clicked the Steam shortcut, got the same "Fatal Error" msg., but then Steam updated ( a big update)! And now I have a login window.

[R33D3M33R]

Exactly the same package is located in the Ubuntu Software Center.

This is not true. The packages are different in almost every file and even have different lists of depends:

Package: steam
Version: 1:1.0.0.45-1ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Installed-Size: 2731
Pre-Depends: debconf, multiarch-support
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.12), libstdc++6 (>= 4.3), libx11-6, xz-utils, libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0, xterm | x-terminal-emulator
Recommends: zenity, fonts-liberation
Section: non-free/games
Priority: extra

Package: steam-launcher
Source: steam
Version: 1.0.0.49
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Valve Corporation <linux@steampowered.com>
Installed-Size: 2271
Depends: python, curl, libc6 (>= 2.15), python-apt, xterm | gnome-terminal | konsole, xz-utils, zenity
Recommends: jockey-common
Breaks: steam64
Replaces: steam, steam64
Section: games
Priority: optional

As you can see, steam_latest.deb depends on curl and it would thus be downloaded and installed.