Your message dated Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:09:37 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#1131109: steam-installer: package not installable on
trixie
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: steam-installer
Version: 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
steam-installer is uninstallable, even though its dependency is installed.
# apt install steam-installer
Solving dependencies... Error!
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:
Unsatisfied dependencies:
steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3) but it is not
installable
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional
context:
Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
1. steam-installer:amd64=1:1.0.0.83~ds-3 is selected for install
2. steam-installer:amd64 Depends steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3)
but none of the choices are installable:
[no choices]
# dpkg -l steam-libs-i386
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================-===============-============-=========================================
ii steam-libs-i386:i386 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3 i386 Metapackage for 32-bit
Steam dependencies
I guess maybe apt no longer allows for dependencies in other architectures.
Best regards,
Michał Trojnara
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.73+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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 dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.16.2-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii lsof 4.99.4+dfsg-2
ii steam-libs 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3
ii steam-libs-i386 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3
ii xdg-user-dirs 0.18-2
ii zenity 4.1.90-1
steam-installer recommends no packages.
steam-installer suggests no packages.
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 at 13:13:34 +0200, Michał Trojnara wrote:
I managed to diagnose and fix the issue: Something has created /etc/apt/
apt.conf.d/99default-arch on my machine. Deleting the file allowed for
installing steam-installer.
Thanks, closing as not a bug in steam-installer.
I failed to identify the culprit, as the file did not belong to any package
currently installed on my machine.
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=99default-arch&literal=1 doesn't
find anything in Debian referring to that filename either.
smcv
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