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RedJumper

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Will Steam be moved from the multilib repository due to 64 bit switch?

I'm just curious what will be happening with Steam, since they just released the 64 bit version yesterday, and the 32 bit client will lose support on January 1st 2026. Will Steam switch from multilib to extra? If it does switch, what could the migration process look like for everyone using the old package from multilib?

WorMzy

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Re: Will Steam be moved from the multilib repository due to 64 bit switch?

Could you provide a link to back up your claims? I've not seen any news about a 64-bit Linux client. They recently released a new version of the runtime, something used by games to ensure a common set of libraries across distributions, but that's unrelated to the client.

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RedJumper

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Re: Will Steam be moved from the multilib repository due to 64 bit switch?

https://store.steampowered.com/news/gro … 7226744433

They do say it's for Windows 10 and 11 in the notes here, but I think it's safe to assume they're trying to phase out 32-bit, even if it happens later on Linux than on Windows.

WorMzy

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Re: Will Steam be moved from the multilib repository due to 64 bit switch?

Thanks for the link. As noted this only affects the Windows client, but to answer your question, if Valve do ever release a 64-bit Linux client, then it will probably* get packaged in the extra repo and the multilib package package will be dropped.

* unless there's no Arch devs/package maintainers willing to package it and maintain it.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: Will Steam be moved from the multilib repository due to 64 bit switch?

Even if the steam client becomes 64-bit that doesn't mean the runtime / proton will be 64-bit .

Most libraries that were previously available for both x86_64 and i386 are now only available for x86_64. In general, we only have i386 libraries if they are expected to be needed for Proton or for the steam-runtime-tools diagnostic tools.

proton 10 shows no sign of using wine-on-wine-64 and will probably continue to be a multilib application for a long time.

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