Need help installing steam dependencies

[Andr]

Hello, i'm new to linux and I have been trying to install the steam dependencies but i can't find a proper guide on how to do it. Can someone please guide me? When i run steam it show this message

Steam needs to install these additional packages: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

there are other errors below but i can seem to copy the texts when i right click it. It looks like a terminal too. And also when i try to install them i get the message the following packages have umnet dependecies. Thanks!

[egs]

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

This is for MESA GL driver.

[Andr]

so sorry i'm very much new to linux. i copy and pasted the command in the terminal :D and it updated some files but i'm still getting the steam dependencies message.

[egs]

So you should install all that dependencies. But this is strange. Paste all this errors here, so we see it.

[Andr]

I'm dual booting with Windows 8.1 with Elementary OS Freya. Here are my specs

cpu - i7 4770K
motherboard - Asus Maximus VI Hero
ram 8GB 2133Mhz ram
gpu - Asus Nvidia GTX 660 Ti DC2T

I downloaded the deb package from steam website and installed it through Software Center. Can i uninstall steam and reinstall steam through the terminal? would that fix the dependencies issue? Thanks!

[Andr]

Originally posted by ex:

So you should install all that dependencies. But this is strange. Paste all this errors here, so we see it.

this is the error i get

Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri

[Andr]

Thanks i'll try that now and report back :) its almost 300mb so it might take awhile since my connection is slow.

[egs]

You could remove it by

sudo apt-get purge steam

also you could try to remove all it's package and downloaded games. All should be located at ~/.steam (hidden folder).
As you said you have nVidia adapter, so you could switch to proprietary video driver and glx so all games can work as expected, because many of them do not support mesa. If you haven't anything against proprietary software you could switch to it by

sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libgl1-nvidia-dri:i386

Also you should know than most of Steam dependencies are bundled with it and it should download them via self-update process.

[Andr]

i have already removed steam through the software center as for the graphics driver i have installed the Nvidia binary driver - version 352.63 (proprietary, tested) from the additional driver since the default X.Org X Server - Nouveau display driver keep freezing the OS.

[Andr]

I'm so excited to game on linux atm. I have been trying dual boot the os with windows 8.1 for 2 days now and finally got it working :D and also before i removed steam i was able to get to the steam client but the download speed was really slow, its not using even half of my connection speed. Did you ever had the same problem? The download speed never go up to 20kb+ and its taking forever to download the game

[egs]

Did you installed those systems in UEFI mode on GPT disk? Or in legacy mode? If second - beware of Windows update in case you have 1 hard drive, because it could break your bootloader, and especially in case you have LVM setup. UEFI setup should eliminate all this problems.

[Andr]

Originally posted by Maleko:

Try changing your download region to the next closest one. I had to change mine recently because it was too slow.

Thanks! i'll try that :)

[Andr]

Originally posted by ex:

Did you installed those systems in UEFI mode on GPT disk? Or in legacy mode? If second - beware of Windows update in case you have 1 hard drive, because it could break your bootloader, and especially in case you have LVM setup. UEFI setup should eliminate all this problems.

i didn't install the os in UEFI mode. I booted from the usb and choose to install the os and i made a different partition for linux :)

[egs]

Originally posted by Max Factor:

Originally posted by ex:

Did you installed those systems in UEFI mode on GPT disk? Or in legacy mode? If second - beware of Windows update in case you have 1 hard drive, because it could break your bootloader, and especially in case you have LVM setup. UEFI setup should eliminate all this problems.

i didn't install the os in UEFI mode. I booted from the usb and choose to install the os and i made a different partition for linux :)

Only one partition? Maintenance of this setup will be problematic. You had an ability to setup LVM on that partition and make as many virtual partitions as you need. But if anything go wrong LVM would make you a headache.

[Andr]

sadly, yes. I wanted to make a partition for each root, home and swap but i had reached the limit of creating new partition so i installed without a swap and put the / as mount point

[Andr]

Originally posted by Maleko:

Try changing your download region to the next closest one. I had to change mine recently because it was too slow.

i tried changing the region but the download speed is still slow. I'm getting 10 to 20kbps download speed. I even tried the workaround posted here. dnsmasq won't install. https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/2/616189106498372437/

And thanks for your help the dependencies issue seem to have been fixed. And also i'm getting the old steam icon anyway to change that?