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spezcorp

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Registered: 2025-01-21

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Steam won't start

When trying to run steam through the terminal, all I get are these results:
steam.sh[33881]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[33881]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically

And nothing else. My system is up to date, and steam is installed through pacman. My DE is KDE Plasma, and I am using a nvidia gpu.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Steam won't start

what research have you done so far regarding this issue?

gromit

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Re: Steam won't start

How did you install steam?

spezcorp

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Registered: 2025-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Steam won't start

How did you install steam?

I installed it using "sudo pacman -S steam"

spezcorp

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Registered: 2025-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Steam won't start

what research have you done so far regarding this issue?

I've looked at a lot of other forum posts, but none of them seem to share my issue, as far as I am aware

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Steam won't start

Is lib32-nvidia-utils installed (... and lib32-amdvlk uninstalled)? Have you seen the additional notes on the system requirements steam has? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam#Installation -- in particular the en_US locale requirement?

I'd also suggest you install steam-native-runtime you pick up some useful 32bit packages that can help with keeping steam running.

spezcorp

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Registered: 2025-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Steam won't start

It suddenly just fixed itself? I'm not sure why, but after opening it on hyprland then going back to plasma, it works just fine now...

Motoko

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Registered: 2024-09-19

Posts: 1

Re: Steam won't start

Having the exact same issue starting today.
For me it seems to be stuck at
/usr/bin/zenity --progress --auto-close --no-cancel --width 400 --text=Unpacking Steam Runtime

However, it does not show up at all. I'm on Hyprland