Steam stopped working, reinstalling it didn't help

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A little while ago my steam stopped working. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and that didn't work.

When I try to launch steam the icon just blinks 3 to 4 times and steam never opens.

Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit is the version I'm currently running.

I typed steam in terminal, and this was the dialog that came

Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit 
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!

Seems like it is in working order so I don't know what is wrong

EDIT : So after renaming the 2 directories ~/.steam* and ~/.local/share/Steam Steam comes up with a new error :

Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

Open a terminal and run Steam from there by typing "steam" then enter. It should give some error messages. Please [edit] your question and post them inside {}. — , Nov 05 '17 at 18:13
Weird, it should be more text after that. It looks like it just stops but without giving a reason. — , Nov 06 '17 at 03:23
Could you please move all the per-user steam files (~/.steam*, ~/.local/share/Steam, ~/.cache/steam) out of the way and try again? The easiest way would be to rename them. Thanks. — David Foerster, Nov 06 '17 at 08:02
@MichaelBay well, yeah. That basically explains what happens, I think. — SomeLinuxFan, Nov 06 '17 at 20:46
@DavidFoerster That did not work, I tried renaming the files and re-launching and nothing changed except that the user liscense agreement popped up again. Also, the Directory ~/.cache/steam did not exist. — SomeLinuxFan, Nov 06 '17 at 20:50
@SomeLinuxFan Have a look at this answer, maybe it helps: https://askubuntu.com/a/614458/522934 — Videonauth, Nov 06 '17 at 21:00
@DavidFoerster With the latest update/edit we have something to start troubleshooting. Perhaps the question should be reopened. I think the problem now is the same as discussed in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193802 — , Nov 07 '17 at 00:29
Looks like there are actually two unrelated issues and the resolution of the first one uncovered the second one. The possible duplicate are (1) Can't Launch Steam No Errors In terminal (Ubuntu 14.04) and (2) Problem with installing Steam on Ubuntu 15.04+. — David Foerster, Nov 07 '17 at 04:19

Steam stopped working, reinstalling it didn't help

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