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steam package

Steam won't launch after update in 18.04

Bug #1757473 reported by Bret Ancowitz
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
steam (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

18.04 Ubuntu Budgie
Terminal said unable to locate pkgname

Here’s the error message from terminal:

Repairing installation, linking (my home directory)/.steam/steam to (home directory)/.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)
(my home directory)/.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 directory)/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 444: no match: ssfn*

Tags: bionic
Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)
tags: added: bionic
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in steam (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tallicia (tallicia) wrote :

Following the following three steps, Steam launches now from Show Applications list in gnome.

/usr/bin/steam --reset
find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" \) -print -delete
~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam

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Nicholas Scarpinato (nscarpinato) wrote :

Doing what Tallicia said gave me the following error:

symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_request_with_fds

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luitzen (bootluitzen) wrote :

try this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/966373/steam-doesnt-open-on-ubuntu-17-10

Worked for me ubuntu 18.10

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Yannick Chasse (ychasse) wrote :

+1 luitzen's solution worked for me to.

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