Debian Testing Steam not working

[VentGrey]

Hello Debian users, I currently face a problem, i've installed Debian Testing but everytime i try to start steam (i installed it from the repos) it throws this error message

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omar@Debian:~$ steam
tar: Esto no parece un archivo tar
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
find: ‘/home/omar/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No existe el fichero o el directorio
omar@Debian:~$ 

im using the same specs are other posts
A GPU Intel HD Cherryview
and Kernel 4.7
I also added the i386 archtiecture.

[GarryRicketson]

https://wiki.debian.org/Steam

You must be sure that the regular user that will run steam games is at least at groups "video" and "audio".

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#usermod -a -G video,audio second_user 

Debian has a security approach that all is forbidden unless sysadmin explicitly allows. This schema is managed by "task" groups. The very first regular user created during installation is included in groups "video", "audio", "cdrom", "scanner", and so on. The next users created are not included at any special group. This way, next created users will not be able to execute steam. It fails with weird messages regarding "X bad number out of range." You must have to include them explicitly with commands or users management GUIs like kuser.

And there is much more you should read.

(i installed it from the repos)

But which repos, ?

Steam is a proprietary content delivery and management application for PC software with GNU/Linux support

Why is it looking for "ubuntu" ? If you are using Debian ?

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find: ‘/home/omar/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’  

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Why is it looking for "ubuntu" ? If you are using Debian ?

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find: ‘/home/omar/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’  

Steam installs local Ubuntu libraries that are not available in Debian, those files should be present.

@OP: please list the exact commands that you used to install Steam.

You should probably check this link as well:

https://wiki.debian.org/Steam#Troubleshooting

[VentGrey]

I installed it from the non free repositories, sadly the troubleshooting solution did not work because those directories/libraries do not exist.

[stevepusser]

The error message says the system can't recognize tar.xz files, which seems whacky since Debian packages are compressed with the xz format. Can you confirm that you can extract a tar.xz file?

[VentGrey]

i cannot since it returns the same error

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tar: This doesn't look like a tar file
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[stevepusser]

So it seems that tar is damaged somehow. Have you tried reinstalling it?

[VentGrey]

Tried the "apt-get install --reinstall" command, and the manual mode which is Deleting and installing again but nothing still.

[GarryRicketson]

Can you confirm that you can extract a tar.xz file?

What about trying some other tar.xz file, Can the OP make one,...

How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
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https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xz-utils

So it seems that tar is damaged somehow. Have you tried reinstalling it?

Maybe the OP show us exactly how they are writing the command to unzip
it ? or How they are trying to uzip,..
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tar -xJf file.pkg.tar.xz  

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xz: (stdin): File format not recognized 

To me , that indicates the OP does not have the right utilities,
or is not writing the command correctly.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Tried the "apt-get install --reinstall" command, and the manual mode which is Deleting and installing again but nothing still.

Did you clear your package cache before re-installing?

If the .deb is corrupted then re-installing that will not help.

Try:

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# aptitude clean
# aptitude reinstall tar

[VentGrey]

Tried reinstalling steam and the utils and it worked, thanks a lot!