Steam problems in Ubuntu 15.04 x64

Question

Steam doesn't want to run in ubuntu 15.04. I have an ati graphics card (7870xt). I tried installing steam first and the proprietary drivers afterwards, and vice versa, removing steam files from ~/.steam and ~/.local/share/Steam and nothing helped.

Running steam from the terminal gives the following output:

Setting up Steam content in /home/lo-fi/.local/share/Steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 15.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20150425112336_1.dmp
/home/lo-fi/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730: 11948 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
mv: cannot stat ‘/home/lo-fi/.steam/registry.vdf’: No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/lo-fi/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on ubuntu 15.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/lo-fi/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20150425112337_1.dmp
/home/lo-fi/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730: 12076 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-8301f08b-196f-4c65-8be1-e80382150425

Any ideas are welcome.

EDIT: I installed libcurl3:i386 as per what @Velkan said. libcurl3 and curl were already installed. The output of the error changed somewhat, so I updated it above.

It complains about libcurl.so. Do you have it? Try to install curl or libcurl3 package. — Velkan, Apr 25 '15 at 06:56
@Velkan I had it installed, but i went ahead and reinstalled it and also installed libcurl3:i386 for good measure. No deal, it still refuses to start, but i see a somewhat different output now. Updating the post. — koleoptero, Apr 25 '15 at 08:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Here are suggestions from other answers. The steps described in other answers are:

Follow this answer by @imolit:

uninstall your Nvidia or AMD driver

I.e. sudo apt-get purge fglrx* or sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*

reboot

start Steam and let it update, while using the open drivers

reinstall your proprietary driver

and finally reboot again.

You can also try switching your driver to X.Org X server - see this answer by @Michael:

Open Additional Drivers

Select "Using X.Org X server(open source, tested)" driver.

Then go to Ubuntu Software Center and install Steam (steam-launcher).

Then change Graphic driver back.

Steam problems in Ubuntu 15.04 x64

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