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blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 8:40 PM

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on the software managers page for steam, i keep getting the error "mesa-libgallium: Depends: libllvm19 but it is not installable". when i try to install stream through synaptic package manager, it tells me that the installer package is broken.

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 9:17 PM

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Hey there, please run

sudo apt update
sudo apt install steam

in the terminal, and screenshot the results

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 9:18 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 9:21 PM

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Ok, please run

sudo apt install -f

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 9:22 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 9:30 PM

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Alright, this one next

apt policy libllvm19:i386

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 9:53 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 9:57 PM

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Ok, and just to check, type

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 9:58 PM

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nothing happened?

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 9:59 PM

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It says i386 at the bottom, which is good.

Now please screenshot "software sources" window, ppas and additional sources tabs

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:01 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:04 PM

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Ok, in the additional repositories, uncheck the llvm one, and press the green button that'll appear at the bottom.

after that, go to the terminal and try

sudo apt install steam

again

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:28 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:30 PM

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Did you uncheck the llvm source?

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:31 PM

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its unchecked and i updated cache

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:32 PM

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Interesting.... Let's try

sudo apt clean
sudo apt update

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:33 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:33 PM

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ok, now

sudo apt install steam

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:34 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:35 PM

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does

apt showhold

show anything?

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:35 PM

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shows nothing

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:36 PM

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Let's try installing libllvm19 ourselves then

sudo apt install libllvm19:i386

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:38 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Hmm......

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Show me the software sources window again, maintainance tab

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:52 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 10:52 PM

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Click remove foreign packages - show me the list

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 10:58 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 11:01 PM

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Ok, close this window and show me "Downgrade foreign packages" list

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 11:02 PM

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zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 11:03 PM

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click select all and click downgrade

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 11:07 PM

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ok did that

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 11:09 PM

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No errors?

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 11:09 PM

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no errors

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 11:10 PM

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Ok let's try

sudo apt install steam

again

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 11:11 PM

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goddamn its actually installing

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ill test the installer and if nothing else comes up i should be good

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thank you

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 11:13 PM

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Great, glad I could fix it, that llvm software source messed some things it seems, but we were able to fix that

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 11:15 PM

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seems to be working, ill mark this solved :]

zinc dune Mar 29, 2025, 11:17 PM

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Have a nice day )

blazing elbow Mar 29, 2025, 11:26 PM

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you too!

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