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dlesnoff

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Registered: 2020-03-26

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] can not install steam: alsa-lib requirement

Yesterday, I tried upgrading my system with pikaur.
As lib32-alsa-lib requires alsa-lib=1.2.11 which is a too old version for the rest of the packages, I could not update.
I decided to remove steam and lib32-alsa-lib to upgrade my system.

I would like to install steam again. What can I do? Here is the output of pikaur -S steam:

[sudo] password for kolmogorov: 
Reading repository package databases...
Reading local package database...
:: error: 'steam' is NOT installable.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'alsa-lib=1.2.11' required by lib32-alsa-lib
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-alsa-lib' required by lib32-alsa-plugins
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'alsa-lib=1.2.11' required by lib32-alsa-lib
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-alsa-lib' required by lib32-alsa-plugins
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'alsa-lib=1.2.11' required by lib32-alsa-lib
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libasound.so=2-32' required by lib32-alsa-plugins
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-alsa-plugins' required by steam

Do you want to proceed? [Y/n] y

:: Repository package will be installed:
 steam                                                      -> 1.0.0.78-2

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: [v]iew package details   [m]anually select packages
>> y

resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "alsa-lib=1.2.11", a dependency of "lib32-alsa-lib"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-alsa-lib", a dependency of "lib32-alsa-plugins"
warning: cannot resolve "alsa-lib=1.2.11", a dependency of "lib32-alsa-lib"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-alsa-lib", a dependency of "lib32-alsa-plugins"
:: There are 2 providers available for libasound.so=2-32:
:: Repository multilib-testing
   1) lib32-alsa-lib
:: Repository multilib
   2) lib32-alsa-lib

Enter a number (default=1): 1
warning: cannot resolve "alsa-lib=1.2.11", a dependency of "lib32-alsa-lib"
warning: cannot resolve "libasound.so=2-32", a dependency of "lib32-alsa-plugins"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-alsa-plugins", a dependency of "steam"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      steam

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] y
looking for conflicting packages...
 there is nothing to do

I guess that steam-cmd and steam-native-runtime could be alternatives.

Last edited by dlesnoff (2024-02-03 10:19:30)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,648

Re: [SOLVED] can not install steam: alsa-lib requirement

Step 1: USE PACMAN, NOT PIKAUR
Step 2: Make sure your pacman.conf is sane. testing repos are all or nothing.

Last edited by Scimmia (2024-02-02 15:47:30)

dlesnoff

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Registered: 2020-03-26

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] can not install steam: alsa-lib requirement

Here is my pacman.conf. I do not see anything suspicious. I tried with pacman too without luck. No need to shout in all caps …

[options]
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
Architecture = auto
CheckSpace
ParallelDownloads = 6
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 921

Re: [SOLVED] can not install steam: alsa-lib requirement

[options]
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
Architecture = auto
CheckSpace
ParallelDownloads = 6
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

testing repos are all or nothing.

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Re: [SOLVED] can not install steam: alsa-lib requirement

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dlesnoff

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Registered: 2020-03-26

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] can not install steam: alsa-lib requirement

I misinterpreted the answer from Scimmia's. I thought "all or nothing" was referring to the support of the steam package (in the sense, either it works or it doesn't).
Read the wiki, added core-testing and extra-testing to the configuration and installed Steam again. Thanks.