Steam not running or opening on Ubuntu 18.04

**seekerdev** · June 27th, 2018

So I went to the steam website and hit "Download", downloaded the .deb file, and used the command

Code:

steam

and what I get is

Code:

Repairing installation, linking /home/seeker/.steam/steam to /home/seeker/.local/share/Steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
/home/seeker/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_request_with_fds
/home/seeker/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 444: no match: ssfn*

Another issue is when I click on the Steam logo on my desktop literally nothing happens. There's no popup or anything. I've browsed post after post on steam not working for people and tried all the methods that helped other people yet nothing worked for me. So I'm kinda at a loss.

**danja95** · July 9th, 2018

You are missing a dependency.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libxcb-dri3-0

Try to remove your deb version and install steam from a mirror:

apt install steam

Thats how it worked for me

**oldrocker99** · July 9th, 2018

The ONLY way to install Steam is to download it from the repositories. It will automatically pull in all the dependencies, and you should be set to go. You need to put 'sudo' before the installation, thus:

Code:

sudo apt install steam

**seanos** · July 17th, 2018

I did install from the repos (in a fresh install of 18.04) and today Steam won’t start. libxcb-dri3-0 is present under the ~/.steam/ubuntu12_32 folder.

Code:

steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!

Code:

cd ~
.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam

(no output)

**oldrocker99** · July 17th, 2018

Try this:

Code:

sudo apt purge steam && sudo apt install steam

It might work, of course, sometimes the magic works, and sometimes the magic doesn't work.

**MattBro** · July 24th, 2018

Steam is not working for me either on ubuntu 18.04. Launching steam from the command line reveals that it's missing the following 32 bit libraries:
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libva.so.1
libva.so.1
libva-x11.so.1

It appears that 32 bit libraries for libva do not exist on ubuntu 18. Is there any way to get these?

**toyson** · July 30th, 2018

Same Steam not working on my Xubuntu 18.04, it just act like nothing is happening

**oldrocker99** · July 31st, 2018

Interesting. I have only installed from the repos, and all the dependencies were automagically installed with it.

Those missing libraries are installed thus:

Code:

sudo apt install libva-drm2 libva-x11-2

There aren't any .so libraries in the repos. Look for the lib* files, BTW.

That should set you up. I don't know why they didn't install when Steam was installed.