Steam Won't Launch

Legacy Netrunner 16
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I have installed Netrunner 16 from a disk. I started it up, did a full upgrade. I launched steam, it had me click a checkbox, I did, and clicked agree. However when I tried to start it after the fact it showed steam loading on the task bar then disappeared. No GUI no warning, no login popup. Please help

EDIT: Here is the errors when running in terminal

Running Steam on ubuntu 16 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

I also tried fresh installs, removing and purging, then manually deleting .Steam that was left.

Reinstalled to no avail.

2

Steam updates it own client software.
Could you try launching it from a terminal and post any error messages you get?

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Yeah, actually I just thought of trying that, this is what it says

Running Steam on ubuntu 16 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
then is blank at the bottom with no window

4

Are you on a 64bit system?
If so you may need to install the 32bit drivers and libraries as well (Multilib), especially mesa.

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Can you please post the output of:

lspci -v | grep -i "vga\|'Kern'|3D\|display" -A10

I am suspecting you are running a AMD card with the radeon driver.
In this case it would help installing the proprietary AMD Catalystdriver.
See the driver manager under Settings -> Additional Drivers to install the amd catalyst (fglrx) driver.

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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 6770] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

    Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 3150
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
    Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Memory at fe620000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
    I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
    Expansion ROM at fe600000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: radeon

That is what it gives me. I believe I did install those. Not sure if it helped. I am going to reboot the computer for a second and check, I can’t remember if I have since I switched drivers from the xorg version.

EDIT: I just rebooted after doing what you instructed and it works fine now. steam is updating and seems to be launching. Thank you so much.

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Yes, I am. How would I go about doing that?

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It shows radeon driver is in use. Radeon is not fglrx so please install the fglrx driver like instructed and reboot to activate it.