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fishnet37222

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Registered: 2020-09-09

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[Solved] Pacman says the target "steam" does not exist

I just got Arch setup on my laptop and I saw that Steam was in the Arch package repository, so I tried to install it.  When I issue the command "sudo pacman -S steam", it returns with "error: target not found: steam".  I issued the command "sudo pacman -Syy" on the off chance that my package database was out of date, but still got the same error message when trying to install Steam.  According to the online package database search (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/mult … _64/steam/), the package exists, so why am I unable to install it?

Last edited by fishnet37222 (2020-09-09 15:57:36)

Slithery

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Re: [Solved] Pacman says the target "steam" does not exist

RTFW...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#Installation

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Viev

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Registered: 2020-07-24

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Re: [Solved] Pacman says the target "steam" does not exist

You need to enable multilib repository first

fishnet37222

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Registered: 2020-09-09

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Pacman says the target "steam" does not exist

After reading the wiki page, I got it installed and working.

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Pacman says the target "steam" does not exist

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.