Steam not opening on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I'm trying to run Steam on my Ubuntu 18.04 after upgrading from 16.04 (it was running flawlessly there). The issue is, that it's not opening. When I try to execute command steam in the terminal, it returns this message:

Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

The only thing I understand from it is that a driver can't load properly, but I don't know what to do with that.

Maybe this helps: https://askubuntu.com/questions/867081/android-studio-buggy-after-upgrade-to-16-10 — Ruud Helderman, May 14 '18 at 13:55
go to https://askubuntu.com/questions/654566/steam-doesnt-start-libgl-error[1] and and run from answer 1. — Pieter Eikelboom, Jun 25 '18 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '18 at 18:18

These commands should fix it, thanks to The Intelligent Human,(Steam doesn't start. LibGL error) and kisak-valve (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5249)

rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 steam

Finally, run the command steam and it should launch and begin updating.

Steam not opening on Ubuntu 18.04

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