Installation of steam failing - package issues? [Solved]

[MXMateng]

Hi,

I am curently trying to install steam from MXPI Popular Applications.

Installation fails with the following details displayed:

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Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
 steam:i386 : Hängt ab von: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 soll aber nicht installiert werden
              Hängt ab von: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 soll aber nicht installiert werden
E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene defekte Pakete.

Initially I had NVidia drivers installed. After first fails to install steam, I went back to nouveau, but still am facing the errors...

Any ideas to get steam installed (no, I would not like to install as flatpak) and then reinstall also my NVidia drivers?

Thx so much for any hints.
Cheers, Martin



Here my system information:

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Snapshot created on: 20201114_1716
System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.8.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-3-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 tk: Qt 5.11.3 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-19.3_KDE_x64 patito feo August 16  2020 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: MSI product: MS-7996 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: MSI model: H110M PRO-D (MS-7996) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 2.E0 
           date: 08/11/2017 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) 
           stepping: 3 microcode: D6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 25599 
           Speed: 3306 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3306 2: 3279 3: 3313 4: 3349 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:1c02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: kwin_x11 
           resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: NV136 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 100 Series/C230 Series Family driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:10f1 
           Device-3: Logitech [G533 Wireless Headset Dongle] type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-4:5 
           chip ID: 046d:0a66 
           Device-4: Logitech B525 HD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-7:7 chip ID: 046d:0836 
           serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-3-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel 
           port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 5.46 TiB used: 2.84 TiB (52.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3 1T00 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
           speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 00RL temp: 26 C scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD40EZRX-00SPEB0 size: 3.64 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 temp: 34 C scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EAVS-32D7B1 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 temp: 34 C scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 33.97 GiB size: 33.19 GiB (97.69%) used: 17.55 GiB (52.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 827.09 GiB size: 813.11 GiB (98.31%) used: 446.30 GiB (54.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 67.06 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
           dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.5 C mobo: 29.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 61 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/airvpn-stable.list 
           1: deb http://eddie.website/repository/apt stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list 
           1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list 
           1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 251 Uptime: 6m Memory: 31.33 GiB used: 1.56 GiB (5.0%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[dolphin_oracle]

as silly as it sounds, its easy to installed steam first, then nvidia.

you can purge off nvidia.

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sudo ddm-mx -p nvidia

then you should be able to install steam. you can put the nvidia drivers back after steam is installed.

[MXMateng]

Well... Uninstalling nvidia actually was, what I think I did before trying to install steam, as I read of issues with nvidia in place.

Trying to purge of nvidia again with your given command still seems not to help.
Trying to install steam still produces:

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OK:1 http://eddie.website/repository/apt stable InRelease
OK:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
OK:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
OK:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
OK:5 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
OK:6 http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
OK:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Ign:8 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease
OK:9 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable InRelease
OK:10 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release
OK:11 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com buster InRelease
OK:12 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease
OK:13 https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable InRelease
OK:14 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease
Paketlisten werden gelesen...
Paketlisten werden gelesen...
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut....
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen....
Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:

Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
 steam:i386 : Hängt ab von: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 soll aber nicht installiert werden
              Hängt ab von: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 soll aber nicht installiert werden
E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene defekte Pakete.
Paketlisten werden gelesen...
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut....
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen....
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.

By the way, no glue why my MXPI output is in German. My MX System is actually configured as English as far as I understand ... Strange ...

[dolphin_oracle]

were your nvidia-drivers installed from test?

[dolphin_oracle]

ok, you can remove steam, then do the autoremove to remove packages steam depends that got installed. then reinstall steam. then nvidia drivers, I think.

removing steam will not remove any games you downloaded already. they should be present after the reinstall.

[MXMateng]

Might be, that initially the NVidia driver were installed from test. I had opencl issues that then were resolved by the 455 version i think initially available in test.

steam is removed - autoremove done with no further packages to be removed.
re-install of steam still fails with

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Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:

Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
 steam:i386 : Hängt ab von: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 soll aber nicht installiert werden
              Hängt ab von: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 soll aber nicht installiert werden
E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene defekte Pakete.

hmmm...

[dolphin_oracle]

ok, then we enable test and install steam that way.

enable the test repo (mx-repo-manager or edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list)

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apt-get update

then

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apt install -t mx steam:i386

disable test and update sources again when done.

[MXMateng]

YEAH !!

Looks good so far ... Steam installed and it pulled updates and starts fine.
Brilliant.
No I will in next step try to re-install NVidia driver, but looks good so far.

Thank you very much !!!

[dolphin_oracle]

you are very welcome!

on your locale issue...I suspect your default system locale is set to german. you can look in /etc/default/locale to see.

[MXMateng]

yepp. Locale was/is set to german. Thx. was wondering ...