When installing Steam, the Steam client cannot obtain administrator rights when installing additional dependencies

[linghengqian]

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Microsoft Windows [版本 10.0.22631.3296]

wsl --status

默认分发: Ubuntu-22.04
默认版本: 2

Did the problem occur during installation?

• Yes

What happened?

• When installing Steam, the Steam client cannot obtain administrator rights when installing additional dependencies.
• I installed steam by following the steps below. The wsl version involved is https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9P7BDVKVNXZ6 , Ubuntu-Preview.
• There are some irrelevant pop-ups when executing sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y, which seems to be caused by the upcoming release of Ubuntu 24.04.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

cd /tmp/
wget https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb
sudo apt install --fix-missing ./steam_latest.deb -y
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update -y

steam

• At this time, entering the password of the current ubuntu account in the steam client will result in a prompt of no authorization. If I try to copy this log, it will cause the steam client to crash.

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• The only way to solve this problem is to install the dependencies manually, I don't know why the steam client reports no authorization.

sudo apt install libc6:amd64 libc6:i386 libegl1:amd64 libegl1:i386 libgbm1:amd64 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:amd64 libgl1:i386 steam-libs-amd64:amd64 steam-libs-i386:i386 -y
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What was expected?

• Complete the installation of steam without the need to manually install additional dependencies.
• If possible, I hope I don't need to manually execute sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 because this sentence is hidden in a steam issue, not in a steam document. I'm not sure about Ubuntu Desktop How does it perform in . Reference steam-runtime not properly unpacked: missing .so files (steamui.so and others) on Debian 10 ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6882 (comment) .

Steps to reproduce

• Execute the following command on the new Ubuntu Preview WSL instance.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

cd /tmp/
wget https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb
sudo apt install --fix-missing ./steam_latest.deb -y
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update -y

steam

Additional information

• To be honest, it seems that no Log is needed because it is reproducible unless there are any issues related to WSLg. When executing steam, the following log exists in the shell.

lingh@DESKTOP-LK088AH:/tmp$ steam
Package libc6:i386 needs to be installed
Package libegl1:i386 needs to be installed
Package libgbm1:i386 needs to be installed
Package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 needs to be installed
Package libgl1:i386 needs to be installed
Package steam-libs-amd64:amd64 needs to be installed
Package steam-libs-i386:i386 needs to be installed
xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1"
steam.sh[20772]: Running Steam on ubuntu 24.04 64-bit
steam.sh[20772]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[20914]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
/home/lingh/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: line 85: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: command not found
run.sh[20926]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
steam.sh[20772]: Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libc.so.6
steam.sh[20772]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
/home/lingh/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 792: /home/lingh/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: cannot execute: required file not found