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fakemishraji

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 8

[Solved] Difficulty installing Steam

I have installed it easily in the past on the same system. But for some reason, this is not working out now.

sri@ArchLinux ~]$ sudo pacman -S steam
[sudo] password for sri:
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "expat=2.4.9", a dependency of "lib32-expat"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-expat", a dependency of "lib32-wayland"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-wayland", a dependency of "lib32-mesa"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-mesa", a dependency of "lib32-libglvnd"
:: There are 3 providers available for lib32-opengl-driver:
:: Repository multilib
   1) lib32-mesa  2) lib32-mesa-amber  3) lib32-nvidia-utils

Enter a number (default=1):
warning: cannot resolve "expat=2.4.9", a dependency of "lib32-expat"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-expat", a dependency of "lib32-wayland"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-wayland", a dependency of "lib32-mesa"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-opengl-driver", a dependency of "lib32-libglvnd"
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-libgl", a dependency of "steam"
:: There are 4 providers available for lib32-vulkan-driver:
:: Repository multilib
   1) lib32-amdvlk  2) lib32-nvidia-utils  3) lib32-vulkan-intel  4) lib32-vulkan-radeon

Enter a number (default=1):
:: 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

Last edited by fakemishraji (2022-09-23 10:18:20)

stanczew

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Registered: 2021-03-02

Posts: 63

Re: [Solved] Difficulty installing Steam

expat 2.4.9 is in Testing. You probably enabled Multilib-Testing without enabling other Testing repositories.
Either enable all Testing repos, or disable Multilib-Testing. In both cases update your system with pacman -Syuu to update all packages to their correct testing or normal versions.

Last edited by stanczew (2022-09-23 10:12:51)

kermit63

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Registered: 2018-07-04

Posts: 174

Re: [Solved] Difficulty installing Steam

do you have the multilib repository enabled?

fakemishraji

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Difficulty installing Steam

do you have the multilib repository enabled?

Yes, but as I found out it was the testing branch Thank you for the prompt response

fakemishraji

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Difficulty installing Steam

expat 2.4.9 is in Testing. You probably enabled Multilib-Testing without enabling other Testing repositories.
Either enable all Testing repos, or disable Multilib-Testing. In both cases update your system with pacman -Syuu to update all packages to their correct testing or normal versions.

Outstanding diagnosis Yes, it turns out that I had enabled the testing branch. All sorted now