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When will Steam stop using i386 packages? (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 2 months ago by hellofriend to c/linux_gaming
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Almost every distro I've used so far ends up having problems installing Steam due to mismatching i386 packages. I've heard that they're being removed upstream. Anyone happen to know a timeline?

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[–] p_consti 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can start steam just fine without the packages. In fact, if you install without them, it'll ask you to install them every time, but you can skip that and it'll work, just 32bit games won't launch

Edit: Looks like I'm partially wrong, as pointed out by a commenter below, steam currently only launches the 32-bit version of the client, despite support for a 5l64-bit client