I just set up my old computer with some new parts today and got it up and running. no old windows key so I used a friends USB drive to put Ubuntu on here hoping to just be able to use my computer until I find the money to get windows and I'm running into the issue of download steam. Originally I downloaded it through steampowered.com like any old person would...then when that didnt work my friend refrenced me some commands in the terminal and when those didnt work i watched a video about installing steam installer through Ubuntu Software and thats where I'm at...
my set up consists of...
GPU: GTX 960 4GB ?(Gallium 0.4 on NV126)? CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 RAM: 8GB 2133mhz MOBO: MSI Tomahawk B350 64 bit OS When launching steam through the terminal this is the process it goes through.
:~$ steam Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast 1 Answer
Open Terminal by Pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and the copy paste the following commands :
First Run the following command to uninstall steam :
sudo apt-get purge steam-launcher && sudo apt-get autoremove Then install Steam by Using the following command :
sudo apt install steam Then Launch Steam and it should work fine.
