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tomsloan

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 22

trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

Hi guys. New arch user here, but not necessarily a new linux user. (Been running ubuntu variants for about a year) Naturally, the first thing I try to do is get steam going, after installing the proprietary catalyst drivers and getting cinnamon going. But of course, pacman gives me this output:

[root@localhost ~]# pacman -S steam
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 3 providers available for lib32-libgl:
:: Repository multilib
   1) lib32-mesa-libgl  2) lib32-nvidia-304xx-utils  3) lib32-nvidia-libgl

Enter a number (default=1): 1
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (27): lib32-bzip2-1.0.6-1  lib32-dbus-1.6.14-1  lib32-elfutils-0.156-1
               lib32-expat-2.1.0-1  lib32-gcc-libs-4.8.1-3
               lib32-glib2-2.36.4-1  lib32-libdrm-2.4.46-1
               lib32-libffi-3.0.13-1  lib32-libgcrypt-1.5.3-1
               lib32-libgpg-error-1.12-1  lib32-libpciaccess-0.13.2-1
               lib32-libx11-1.6.2-1  lib32-libxau-1.0.8-1  lib32-libxcb-1.9.1-1
               lib32-libxdamage-1.1.4-1  lib32-libxdmcp-1.1.1-1
               lib32-libxext-1.3.2-1  lib32-libxfixes-5.0.1-1
               lib32-libxxf86vm-1.1.3-1  lib32-llvm-libs-3.3-1
               lib32-mesa-9.2.0-1  lib32-mesa-libgl-9.2.0-1  lib32-pcre-8.33-1
               lib32-systemd-207-1  lib32-xz-5.0.5-1  lib32-zlib-1.2.8-1
               steam-1.0.0.42-1

Total Installed Size:   69.87 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(27/27) checking keys in keyring                   [######################] 100%
(27/27) checking package integrity                 [######################] 100%
(27/27) loading package files                      [######################] 100%
(27/27) checking for file conflicts                [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-mesa-libgl: /usr/lib32/libGL.so exists in filesystem
lib32-mesa-libgl: /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Any help on this one? I did install the open-source driver before installing cinnamon because installing the catalyst drivers from ATI is easier with a GUI, but I made sure to uninstall the open-source version before installing the catalyst. Also probably irrelevant but I feel is worth noting, I made sure to enable the 32-bit repositories because of experiences with Ubuntu where direct rendering for steam doesn't work unless 32-bit libraries are installed before the catalyst driver.

I'm tempted to just delete /usr/lib32/libGL.so and its '.1' brother just to see what happens, but that's a scary, scary thought.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

If you're using catalyst drivers, you don't want mesa libgl. How did you install the catalyst drivers? Please tell me you didn't install them outside of pacman

tomsloan

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 22

Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

I did install them outside of pacman. I'm used to going strait for AMD's own binary file. Is this something where I can exit out of x, uninstall the catalyst driver and reinstall using pacman, allowing pacman to automatically resolve dependencies?

I guess that also leads me to wonder whether or not I can get my hands on the most recent beta if I install in pacman. It may be worthwhile to stay with the stable release, but seeing as AMD drivers are lagging so badly, I like to have the latest thing I can possibly have.

Last edited by tomsloan (2013-09-30 04:32:10)

Scimmia

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Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Catalyst

Anything that goes in /usr (except /usr/local/) needs to be put there by pacman. As it stands, you have lib32-libgl installed, but pacman has no idea it's there.

Last edited by Scimmia (2013-09-30 04:33:27)

tomsloan

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Registered: 2013-09-30

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Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

Ok, so here's what I've done: removed the proprietary driver, exited x, removed Mesa-libgl as well as all its dependencies and those which depend on it, then I installed the proprietary driver using the unnofficial repo, had another go at installing steam, and now I get the same error except it says "/usr/lib32/dri exists in file system".

Is this the point at which I start over with a fresh install of arch? I've only been running this one for two days, so I'm really thinking it'd be a big deal to start over, but if there's a legit fix for this, I'd like to do that.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

it says "/usr/lib32/dri exists in file system".

Read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138

Last edited by karol (2013-09-30 15:21:46)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

We need more information. Is it still trying to install mesa-libgl?

tomsloan

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 22

Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

No, no more issues with mesa-libgl. I used the information in Karol's link to fix the issue with /usr/lib32/dri, which allowed steam to install. But after that, I couldn't get x to start. So, I decided to start all over and create another arch install. Of course, I'm still having issues with x on the new install, but that's an issue for a different subforum (in fact, I'm not entirely conviced this thread belongs in this subforum) so I'll happily mark this thread as resolved.

Thanks for the help!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: trying to isntall steam: dependency conflict

If you can't figure out how to mark this thread as solved, read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309 :-)