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I'm trying to install steam but when i click the steam installer "install" button nothing happens. After a couple of tries this appeared and it stayed this way all night.

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Edit: I have tried all the suggestions here but nothing worked. Though i did find this,Steam:steam.desktop when i try t save the document it tells me that the file location doesn't exist. Does this help at all?

xwing
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu!

I have had the same problem with DEB files before, and the project is usually missing dependencies. Try running sudo apt install -f in the Terminal to install these missing dependencies. If that doesn't work, try running the file via the command line by typing sudo dpkg -i /path/to/steam-installer where /path/to/steam-installer is the file path to your DEB file. I have sometimes found that for no apparent reason, installation from DEB files works from the Terminal when it does not work in the GUI installer.

EDIT: After misunderstanding @xwing's question, I will now re-answer the question:

  1. First, open the Terminal and type cd /usr/share/applications
  2. Next, type sudo chmod +x *.desktop

Steam should now run properly. Answer gleaned from the Ask Ubuntu archives, Untrusted Application launcher?

FirePenguin
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  • neither of these worked. But when i searched both of my hard drives for "steam" this is one of the things that came up. The error happened when i tried to click on it. – xwing Aug 11 '17 at 02:03
  • After editing 4 times i realize i dont know how to post an image, sorry. what it says is that it is an untrusted application, and it needs to be marked as trusted, how do i do that? – xwing Aug 11 '17 at 02:11
  • is something noticeable supposed to happen after i type the second line? or does it happen in the background and i need to restart? – xwing Aug 11 '17 at 14:21
  • You shouldn't have to restart, but maybe you should restart your session, just log out and log back in again. The chmod command shouldn't output anything. – FirePenguin Aug 12 '17 at 10:55