I've just installed Ubuntu Gnome to start using as my daily OS at home and I tried getting steam installed and working. I installed using
sudo apt-get install steam
Apparently that didn't do it because I ended up with this when I try to run Steam.
~$ steam Running Steam on ubuntu 15.10 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically [2015-12-23 12:12:34] Startup - updater built Dec 14 2015 11:15:53 SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
I momentarily fixed it by running these two commands I found while searching Google, but after rebooting and coming back to my computer later I'm still getting the same problem.
When it was working for a brief moment I installed some games and tried to play them, but when I tried to launch there simply nothing happened. Any clues as to why this is happening and how anyone else has managed to get it working? I'm pretty much a total noob when it comes to Linux. I'm just trying to learn as I go.
i had similar issues on every flave of ubuntu, i cant get steam to work either. After installed steam from the command line, you can execute the application. But then it downloads some update data, and it simply stops working.
I still need to look more deeply into this issue. I haven´t done that yet, because on Linux Mint and Open Suse steam works properly.
I've also tried on different versions, and flavours of ubuntu without success. I got it to work on my old laptop at one point, but I think I had installed the 32bit version of Ubuntu.
I can't believe how hard it is to find support on this too. There must be other people out there who have got it to work. Wasn't Logan running Steam on his Gnome installation back when he made that first Linux Log?
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Yes i think that Logan has steam working on his Ubuntu distro. I still need to look more deeply into the issue. I did not do that yet, because in linux mint, and open suse it simply worked properly. Not sure why you need to go trough any whoops with Ubuntu to get the steam client to work. But its a bit stupid.
I think you allready tried it, to download the installer from the steam website?
Yes I did. I removed steam, rebooted and then installed from the .deb from steampowered.com
I get this output:
~$ steam Repairing installation, linking /home/batdoctor27/.steam/steam to /home/batdoctor27/.local/share/Steam rm: cannot remove ‘/home/batdoctor27/.steam/steam’: Is a directory Setting up Steam content in /home/batdoctor27/.local/share/Steam rm: cannot remove ‘/home/batdoctor27/.steam/steam’: Is a directory
Could that be because of running these commands before when it was installed?
I have Steam running normally on Ubuntu 14.04. The problem here is the new 15.xx version. Installed 15.10 on my Laptop and tried installing Steam there and had the same issues as here described. Also found a lot of topics on google about Ubuntu 15.04 and Steam not working together.
Many mentioned something about 32bit and 64bit beeing a problem. But dunno, I haven't fixed mine on my laptop yet. Hadn't the time for it.
What the actual key to the issue is, i´m not fully sure yet. I need to setup a new vm some time, and try to figure it out. I have not tried the 14.04 LTS releases of the Ubuntu flavs, since i´m not a huge fan of ubuntu personaly.
Thanks for your suggestions and help! If anything breaks again I'll let you know but maybe @MisteryAngel, you can get it working too by trying that method?