How Do I Install Steam on a 64Bit System?
Alright So My Computer Is 64-Bit and I Only Want to Use Linux to Install Steam, Play Team Fortress 2 and Get That Penguin Item but It's Not Working out for Me...
Alright so my computer is 64-bit and I only want to use Linux to install Steam, play Team Fortress 2 and get that penguin item but It's not working out for me. The version of Ubuntu I installed was the "Wubi.exe" which let's me use it along with Windows. But when I get it up and download the Steam .deb file, it tells me "Wrong Architecture 'i386'". What do I have to do to run Ubuntu alongside windows without using a CD/USB stick?
7 Answers
Open the terminal and type:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
Try installing it after doing that.
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EDIT [Preferred Method on new Ubuntu]
As of Ubuntu 16.04 you can now do the following:
$ sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
$ sudo apt-get install steam
OLD ANSWER:
Try installing the ia32 libs by opening up a terminal and entering the following:
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Once that has run and installed, then use terminal to install Steam for you. Run the following in terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install steam
Now you will have Steam installed and you should be able to launch it as expected.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
sudo apt-get install steam
it's working with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on iMac 2008 via Dual-boot with rEFInd.
Not sure about in 14.04, but at least in 15.04 steam is in the multiverse repository. that means that you can simply sudo apt-get install steam and it will install the required dependencies. No need to download a .deb file.
Just adding this for future use.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
sudo apt-get -f install steam
This worked for me, finally after searching around for a few hours. Thank you guys!
Talk of i386 or ia32-libs doesn't work for 14.04. When I try the later, I receive the following output: However the following packages replace it: lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
As such, this solution works for me. Alt+Ctrl+T to open the terminal and run following commands:
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
sudo apt-get install steam
Steam works as expected from here.
Steam needs to install these additional i386 packages:
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386, libc6:i386
I want to download the app steam, but I click on the app and the text is now what I do to open steam.
You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libc.so.6
and this to click close.
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