I've installed steam through the software boutique, but whenever I try to launch it, it fails. I get the steam popup window saying that it is updating steam and checking for updates, but it crashed before anything else happens. I've tried the solutions posted here (Steam won't open in Ubuntu 15.10) but it doesn't solve my problem.
Here is the output when I try to run steam in a terminal.
Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
/bin/bash: /home/whenke/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /bin/bash)
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
awk: /home/whenke/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6)
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1474415843)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1474415843)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1474415843)
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "topmenu-gtk-module"
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1474415843)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 80: saw unknown, expected number
[1010/124635:ERROR:main_delegate.cc(779)] Could not load cef_extensions.pak
[1010/124635:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(217)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sandbox_development.md for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20160920182018)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1474395618)
[1010/124635:ERROR:main_delegate.cc(779)] Could not load cef_extensions.pak
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20160920182018)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1474415843)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1474415843)
assert_20161010124634_1.dmp[5572]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20161010124634_1.dmp
assert_20161010124634_1.dmp[5572]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20161010124634_1.dmp[5572]: response: CrashID=bp-081206d1-dd5d-479d-8672-aa9622161010
assert_20161010124634_1.dmp[5572]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20161010124634_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-081206d1-dd5d-479d-8672-aa9622161010''
/home/whenke/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 713: 5543 Bus error (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
. 2.Exec=env LC_ALL=C steam $@
3.ldd steam | grep found
and look at any libs that are missing. Install the missing libs – GrannySez Oct 11 '16 at 03:46