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I have the Steam Launcher installed (installed via Software Center), when double-clicking the launcher the following is executed in the command window:

Steam needs to install these additional packages: 
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libglapi-mesa:i386 (= 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4)
 unity-control-center : Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Press return to continue:

Upon pressing Enter, the following dialogue box pops up:

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libGL.so.1

What to do?

heemayl
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  • Whats the outputs of dpkg --print-architecture and dpkg --print-foreign-architectures ? – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 21:55

  • amd64

    and

    i386

    respectively

     – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:05
  • If it helps: This original post was about the error telling me I needed 'lib.so.6' 32-bit libraries, but I found some help someone had gotten previously, followed the advice, and this is the new response – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:06
  • Could you please edit your question and add the full command with the output.. – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 22:11
  • I'm sorry, it's not a command that results in the prompt about missing 'libGL.so.1', it is the Steam launcher that was installed via Software Center. I will copy and paste the entire output after double-clicking on the steam launcher: – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:15
  • heemayl, thanks for looking at this - I have edited the original question to contain a little more context. Sorry for not providing it before. – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:20
  • See if this helps.. – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 22:26
  • I checked the link and ran the following:

    sudo gedit /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log

     – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:33
  • which resulted in an empty log file. I then ran the update and install commands to make sure everything was up to snuff. The result was that no files were modified (I'm assuming that means my system was good to go)

    Should I try to install the missing dependencies? I'm unsure how to do that unless I just search their name in software center, or type something easy to interpret such as "sudo apt-get install ". I'm a bit of a rookie.

     – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:34
  • Run sudo apt-get install libglapi-mesa:i386 libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 22:37
  • Holy cow, it's like pandora's box:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:

    libcheese-gtk23 : Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2) but it is not going to be installed

                   Depends: libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 (>= 0.91.8) but it is not going to be installed

               Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

    libcheese7 : Depends: libclutter-gst-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: gstreamer1.0-clutter but it is not going to be installed

    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

     – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:41
  • I'm going to try manually installing the new dependencies real quick (using the same syntax you posted above) – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:42
  • Yeah..go ahead.. – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 22:42
  • Bizarre - those new "missing" dependencies are already there and up to date:

    sudo apt-get install libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libcogl15 libclutter-gst-2.0-0 gstreamer1.0-clutter Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done gstreamer1.0-clutter is already the newest version. libclutter-1.0-0 is already the newest version. libclutter-gst-2.0-0 is already the newest version. libcogl15 is already the newest version. libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

     – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:46
  • Also, sorry about the awful formatting... – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 22:46
  • Thats because it needs specific versions of the dependencies..try with versions mentioned e.g. for libclutter-gst-2.0-0 use sudo apt-get install libclutter-gst-2.0-0=0.10.0 – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 22:51
  • You will get some idea of what i have told from here – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 22:56
  • That is an awesome link, thanks for that. As for the specific versions, they were unfound:

    E: Version '1.13.2' for 'libclutter-1.0-0' was not found E: Version '0.91.8' for 'libclutter-gtk-1.0-0' was not found E: Version '1.15.8' for 'libcogl15' was not found E: Version '0.10.0' for 'libclutter-gst-2.0-0' was not found

     – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 23:01
  • I'm going to try using the '-f install' option to install the first dependencies you recommended I install – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 23:02
  • No dice. Question: When seeing "Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2)" does that mean my current version is 1.13.2 and all that is necessary for the dependency is 1.0-0 or greater? Vise versa? – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 23:04
  • libclutter-1.0-0 is the package name and 1.13.2 is the version..run apt-cache policy libclutter-1.0-0 you will get the idea.. – heemayl Aug 09 '15 at 23:07
  • That's bizarre, if they require a version >=1.13.2 then what I have installed (1.16.4) should meet that requirement. Very odd, I'll keep poking around and see if there is a common fix. – JohnnyBoy Aug 09 '15 at 23:30
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