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piperfw

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Registered: 2021-01-08

Posts: 27

Steam missing runtime libraries (libnm) [SOLVED]

When attempting to run steam (alias steam-runtime) the launcher hangs on the following

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1576550254)

Following the advice of Steam/Troubleshooting I checked for missing libraries with

$ cd ~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32
$ file * | grep ELF | cut -d: -f1 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. xargs ldd | grep 'not found' | sort | uniq

which returned

libnm-glib.so.4 => not found
libnm-util.so.2 => not found

However I can't find a package which provides these libraries;

pacman -F libnm-glib.so.4

returns no results (I have lib32-lbnm installed).

Has anyone else come across this issue or have any troubleshooting advice?

Last edited by piperfw (2021-08-22 07:22:05)

piperfw

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Registered: 2021-01-08

Posts: 27

Re: Steam missing runtime libraries (libnm) [SOLVED]

The dependency on these two outdated libraries is described in this [open] issue: Remove hard-dependency on NetworkManager

In a (possibly) related bug report for the Arch package suggested running

steam --reset

And then attempting to launch steam again. This worked for me (and in fact the libnm libraries are no longer reported to be missing).