Package: steam-installer Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: wes...@schwengle.net
Dear Maintainer, I wanted to install the steam-installer package, this fails: $ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/unstable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Selected version '1:1.0.0.79~ds-2' (Debian:unstable, Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'steam-installer' Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I don't have steam-libs-i386, but I do see steam-libs: $ apt-cache policy steam-libs steam-libs: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 Version table: 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 900 900 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 10 10 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages Which I can also install: $ sudo apt-get install steam-libs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: libudev0 nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-vulkan-icd Recommended packages: libasound2-plugins libva-glx2 mesa-vulkan-drivers steam-devices zenity The following NEW packages will be installed: steam-libs 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 18.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 38.9 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 steam-libs amd64 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 [18.9 kB] Fetched 18.9 kB in 1s (32.1 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package steam-libs:amd64. (Reading database ... 474365 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../steam-libs_1%3a1.0.0.79~ds-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking steam-libs:amd64 (1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) ... Setting up steam-libs:amd64 (1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) ... I tried reinstalled steam-installer, but this failed (as expected, but tried it none the less): $ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/unstable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Selected version '1:1.0.0.79~ds-2' (Debian:unstable, Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'steam-installer' Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I cannot seem to install it for ANY version of the steam-installer: $ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/testing Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Selected version '1:1.0.0.79~ds-2' (Debian:unstable, Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'steam-installer' Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/stable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Selected version '1:1.0.0.75+ds-6' (Debian:12.5/stable [amd64]) for 'steam-installer' Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs (= 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6) but 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 is to be installed Depends: steam-libs-i386 (>= 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I've also tried to install it by executing: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 to no avail. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (10, 'stable-updates'), (10, 'stable-security'), (10, 'oldstable-security'), (10, 'oldoldstable'), (10, 'stable'), (10, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages steam-installer depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.86 ii steam-libs 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 pn steam-libs-i386 <none> pn zenity | yad <none> steam-installer recommends no packages. steam-installer suggests no packages.