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JohnnySSH

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Registered: 2013-05-04

Posts: 87

Steam installation using the Nvidia 550x branch from AUR

Hi everyone,

I am trying to install Steam to be able to run this particular sim:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4103 … ne_Racing/

I don't know anything about Steam at all so at first I would just like to check that I am trying to install the correct software:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam

If everything is fine and I am installing the correct package, how do I get it to work with the Nvidia 550x branch of drivers from the AUR?

I enabled "multilib" in the "pacman.conf" file but it doesn't give me the option to use the correct driver, is there a way to overcome this?

pacman -Sy steam-native-runtime 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                  120.2 KiB   724 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 extra                   7.8 MiB  8.05 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 multilib              133.1 KiB   802 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 9 providers available for lib32-vulkan-driver:
:: Repository multilib
   1) lib32-amdvlk  2) lib32-nvidia-utils  3) lib32-vulkan-dzn
   4) lib32-vulkan-gfxstream  5) lib32-vulkan-intel  6) lib32-vulkan-nouveau
   7) lib32-vulkan-radeon  8) lib32-vulkan-swrast  9) lib32-vulkan-virtio

Enter a number (default=1): 2
looking for conflicting packages...
:: nvidia-utils-575.64.03-1 and nvidia-550xx-utils-550.163.01-2 are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-550xx-utils? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: nvidia-utils-575.64.03-1 and nvidia-550xx-utils-550.163.01-2 are in conflict

I have to use the 550x branch as the newer branch causes my system to severely kernel panic a lot and I end up having to restore the whole system from scratch.

My laptop has this GPU:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107GLM [RTX A2000 8GB Laptop GPU] (rev a1)

Could anyone help? Thanks!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,360

Re: Steam installation using the Nvidia 550x branch from AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib3 … 50xx-utils

JohnnySSH

Member

Registered: 2013-05-04

Posts: 87

Re: Steam installation using the Nvidia 550x branch from AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib3 … 50xx-utils

Thanks! I thought the Steam package would automatically pull it in and got confused.

Installed the above from the AUR and now all seems to work fine :-)