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Miikalsen

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Registered: 2012-09-13

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Installing Steam Beta.. ? 64bit problem.

Okey.. So I am attempting to install the Beta version of Steam for linux on my 64bit system

But i run the file with Package Installer and i get an error that states : "Error: Wrong architecture 'i386'"

But It's only one download from the page... Anyone dealt with this and could help me out ?

Thanks a lot.

pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

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Re: Installing Steam Beta.. ? 64bit problem.

Since you've posted in "Help & Support (Stable)", I'm going to assume you have Statler installed.  Basically you have two options, both of which involve a complete reinstall:
1.  Switch to Waldorf, because Waldorf/Wheezy has multiarch support.
2.  Switch to the 32-bit PAE version of Statler, because multiarch support did not yet exist in Debian Stable when Squeeze froze.

A third option that might work is installing ia32-libs and ia32-libs-dev, but these are only occasionally successful at getting 32-bit binaries to work on a 64-bit system.

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Miikalsen

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Registered: 2012-09-13

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Re: Installing Steam Beta.. ? 64bit problem.

I'm working on a solution that i found online now. I'll test this if not I'll try what you tell me.

What I'm attempting at the moment is to update multiarch.

# Install build dependencies for multiarch-support.
sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts
sudo apt-get build-dep multiarch-support

# Create a build directory for the package.
mkdir ~/multiarch-backport
pushd ~/multiarch-backport

# Download the multiarch-support source package from the Ubuntu 12.04 repository.
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m … tu10.2.dsc
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m … rig.tar.gz
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m … .2.diff.gz

# Extract and build the Debianized source. (This may take a while... be patient.)
dpkg-source -x eglibc_2.15-0ubuntu10.2.dsc
cd eglibc-2.15
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
cd ..
rm -rf eglibc-2.15

# Install the packages you compiled.
sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i libc6_2.15-*.deb libc6-dev_2.15-*.deb libc6-i386_2.15-*.deb libc6-dev-i386_2.15-*.deb libc-bin_2.15-*.deb libc-dev-bin_2.15-*.deb multiarch-support_2.15-*.deb nscd_2.15-*.deb

# Move out of the build directory and (optionally) delete it if you don't want to keep the packages.
popd
rm -rf ~/multiarch-backport

EDIT: Which did not work. Because installing the packages got me errors.

I really don't have the feel for switching to a 32 PAE system..

Last edited by Miikalsen (2013-01-15 22:08:03)

pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 13,264

Re: Installing Steam Beta.. ? 64bit problem.

Looks like switching to Waldorf would be your best option, especially considering the Wheezy base will be going stable any day now, "when it's ready".

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