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Hashfastr

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 18

Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

Hello, I recently installed archlinux fresh onto my computer and also installed steam, but when I try to run steam from the icon it does nothing, when I tried starting it from the terminal i got this:

[hashfastr@localhost ~]$ steam
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
/home/hashfastr/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 781: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/home/hashfastr/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 783: syntax error: unexpected end of file
[hashfastr@localhost ~]$ 

I've reinstalled it multiple times yet nothing seems to work, i've even looked up other threads on a similar issue but i couldn't find one that produced the same error as me

Am I missing something big here that I should've installed during setup?

I'm using the source amd/ati drivers, and gnome

Last edited by Hashfastr (2015-08-14 20:50:40)

andmars

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Registered: 2012-03-13

Posts: 697

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

When I try to run a fresh install of steam it doesn't work due to the outdated libraries. Does this help (as normal user)?

rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1

Hashfastr

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 18

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

No the first command worked, but the second one didn't

rm: cannot remove ‘/home/hashfastr/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1’: No such file or directory

after I did the two I tried to start steam, it didnt work then I did it again from the console and got this:

Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
/home/hashfastr/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 781: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/home/hashfastr/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 783: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Hashfastr

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 18

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

so i found an answer, there was a santax error on line 710, col 64 of steam.sh, there was an extra " there, remove it and it will work

Last edited by Hashfastr (2015-08-14 20:23:49)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

BTW, how did you install steam?

Hashfastr

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 18

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

I believe with

Sudo pacman -S steam

Using the multilib repo

Last edited by Hashfastr (2015-08-14 20:49:27)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

I know nothing about steam, but I'm curious how did that typo come to be. Is steam.sh something you edited?

Hashfastr

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 18

Re: Steam won't launch [SOLVED]

No it was fresh from the install, never edited it, I program for a hobbie and tend to have alot of errors while using console complilers and I've learned where to look and hunt down errors that tell you it's at one place of the code but it's really in another place, and seeing that I couldn't find a fix any where I decided to make my own fix and I guess inadvertently found a bug

Last edited by Hashfastr (2015-08-14 20:56:30)