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The_Great_Sephiroth
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 Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:06 pm Post subject: Steam won't install... |
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OK, I followed the steam guide and emerged everything without a problem. I did this on an Intel/nVidia setup and it is great. Now I am doing it on an AMD/AMD Radeon setup and it just flat-out won't work. When I unzip Steam and attempt to run the executable it just hangs after some errors. What can I do? I see something about r600, which was an older Radeon.
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rh
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Steam bundles some old libraries in its runtime that conflict with mesa. I usually install with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 and remove them, Arch wiki has some documentation for this issue.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Troubleshooting#Steam_runtime_issues
This is how I remove the offending libs. I don't recall running into this issue lately, I think the latest steam might have fixed this.
| Code: | | find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" \) -print -delete |
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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This Steam was downloaded maybe two weeks ago max. I will grab it again and try. If not I will try the snippet you posted. Thanks for your help!
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| rh wrote: | | Steam bundles some old libraries in its runtime that conflict with mesa. |
To be more precise, it bundles as much of Ubuntu 12.04 as it can legally get away with, which includes most of its (now ancient) X drivers. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| rh wrote: | Steam bundles some old libraries in its runtime that conflict with mesa. I usually install with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 and remove them, Arch wiki has some documentation for this issue.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Troubleshooting#Steam_runtime_issues
This is how I remove the offending libs. I don't recall running into this issue lately, I think the latest steam might have fixed this.
| Code: | | find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" \) -print -delete |
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Thanks for this, it fixed my problem:) |
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Starting with "STEAM_RUNTIME=0" allowed it to install. All is good now. Thank you for the help!
On question lingers though. Should I start Steam with that variable every time? I am not doing that and it works fine. If do use that approach, will it substitute the newer libraries in Gentoo with the outdated Ubuntu ones bundled with it?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Glad to hear it worked out.
| The_Great_Sephiroth wrote: | | On question lingers though. Should I start Steam with that variable every time? I am not doing that and it works fine. |
Short answer is: which ever works for you. Running steam with steam runtime disabled (STEAM_RUNTIME=0) can either fix or introduce bugs depending on the game you play and libs you have installed. Steam with runtime enabled works for me, but if I run to issues disabling it is the first thing I try as a fix. |
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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It runs fine here, so I am not sweating it. If an update breaks something, I'll use it again. Thanks again!
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