steam client doesn't start

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

steps to reproduce the problem:

1. download steam
   wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
2. unpack and install:
   mkdir steam
   cd steam
   ar x ../steam_latest.deb
   tar zxvf data.tar.gz
   sudo cp -r usr /
3. run steam
   $ steam
   Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1352224866_client)

that's it, nothing happens. steam process is not in running.

my system
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.3.7-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.7.0 20120505 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 21 22:39:59 UTC 2012

$ uname -a
Linux lazer 3.3.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 21 22:39:59 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lspci | grep -i vga
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260](rev a1)

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model\ name | head -n 1
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz

$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
2.24.10

$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-3.0
3.4.3

i don't know what other information is needed.. it's a fairly standard Arch Linux i686 running on Dual Xeons 3GHz with 2Gb of RAM, geforce gtx 260, plenty of disk space, etc.

[mdaffin]

If you are running archlinux why not use the aur package rather then blating files all over your root partition?

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

because my system is out of date, and i can't use AUR because it can't find required dependencies.
however, i found what was the problem. installed libpng-1.2, and it started. the bug can be closed now.

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

it still failed to start in the end because it requires newer nvidia drivers, which require newer kernel, etc, etc.
oh well, i'm out of steam for now.

[mdaffin]

Why are you keeping your system out of date? Allot of the benefit to being
on Archlinux is up to the minute updates :)

On 21 December 2012 18:26, oleksiyy [email protected] wrote:

it still failed to start in the end because it requires newer nvidia
drivers, which require newer kernel, etc, etc.
oh well, i'm out of steam for now.

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[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

i'm not a fan of the "update every day" approach. i only update when i can't run software which is critically needed. fortunately, steam is not one of them :)