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Why the Steam deb from Canonical has been broken since 23.04 (popey.com)
submitted 2 years ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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tl;dr In a recent thread on Mastodon, it was revealed that Ubuntu 23.04 users can’t install the Steam deb package from the Ubuntu archive without jumping through some technical hoops. It turns out this was a mistake, a bug was filed, and future builds shouldn’t have this problem.

Steam - the game store/launcher from Valve requires a bunch of 32-bit libraries to function. Many of the games that Steam installs also require many of these various libraries. These older games are likely never going to get updated to have 64-bit clean builds.

The thread on Mastodon brought up an expected thought process, though. The conspiracy theory-minded might (reasonably) think “This is Canonical breaking the deb, so you’re forced to use the snap”. But that doesn’t appear to be the case.

It’s just a simple mistake that is fixed, and now (a selected set of) i386 packages will be easily accessible again.

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[–] aport@programming.dev 45 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Everyone should just use the flatpak. You can get the latest version, latest Mesa, latest mangohud etc on any distro and it will all work exactly the same.

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Not sure why you are getting downvotes. This is clearly the way for users who just wants their apps to work.

[–] NaoPb@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm fine with just using the .deb .

I don't dislike flatpak and it's good that it exists but I prefer not using it if I don't have to.

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Flatpak will probably be the official default format for non-open software in the future.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Flatpak doesn't run the latest stuff typically. Like I'm on Mesa 23.1.4 on Flatpak and 23.1.6 on Fedora. Probably newer than what Ubuntu has though.

[–] SwissJackalope@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I've basically used Flatpak for every GUI application now just cause it usually works. People can dispute how efficient it is but I don't have the time to debug a bunch, what works, works.

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you are installing the latest mesa, you want to use it when playing?

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

This is still a statement, even with the question mark