why can't I get steam on Ubuntu

Question

So I have an acer c7 chromebook and I have chrubuntu 13.10 I think and its 64 bit and I installed steam from the software center but when I open it up it tell me I have to install a package and when I type in my pass word and hit enter it says:

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libc.so.6

The answer is here : http://askubuntu.com/questions/260813/trying-to-install-steam-error-you-are-missing-the-following-32-bit-libraries-a — Ahmadgeo, Mar 07 '14 at 02:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 07 '14 at 02:40

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From terminal

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

once done should work if you get a library error

sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/steam.conf

/usr/lib32

(you may need never had to use this line)
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa

Ctrl+X save

sudo ldconfig

Steam should now work properly from this point on..

edited Mar 07 '14 at 02:40

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answered Mar 07 '14 at 02:14

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That didn't work :(...... any other ideas? – user255629 Mar 07 '14 at 02:31
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@user255629, please elaborate: what happens now? Does error message change? – Danatela Mar 07 '14 at 02:39
It told me that the packege I was trying to install was out of date or doesn't exist and gave me this list of suggestions – user255629 Mar 07 '14 at 16:27
these were the suggestions: However the following packages replace it: lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 – user255629 Mar 07 '14 at 16:29
and for the first two lines it says those are unknown options – user255629 Mar 07 '14 at 16:30

why can't I get steam on Ubuntu

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