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Steam wouldn't start on Linux Mint 17

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yeeiser

I'm new to Linux so I don't know if I did something wrong but as soon as I installed Linux in my laptop and updated all the defaults programs, I installed Steam.

Everything was well for a few weeks but a week ago Steam stopped working. When I click the icon nothing happens.

When I type "steam" in the Terminal I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/steamdeps", line 419, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/bin/steamdeps", line 381, in main
line = line.decode( "utf-8" ).strip()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 50: invalid start byte

Anybody knows how to solve this issue?

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yeeiser

bump

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MaxThunder

I don't know anything about it either, but out of common sense have you tried reinstalling?

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yeeiser

Reinstalled it like 4 times since this issue started

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ozo2003

how did you reinstall it?
for me steam is one of those apps which doesn't really remove everything without purge

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yeeiser

Well all I did was opening the deb package and then click on the uninstall button. Then install it again

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ozo2003

that usually doesn't remove configs...

you can try in terminal with purge:
apt -> apt-get remove --purge steam
or with dpkg -> dpkg --purge steam
it will remove steam itself and clean all steam configuration files.
after that you may run apt-get clean

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yeeiser

I just did thiis, Steam is uninstalled, now I have to do the clean command and then reinstall, I hope it works

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thenevernow

I'll take a look tomorrow on my Linux machine. Reply to this to remind me, please.

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yeeiser

Sorry for asking but how can I do this? I just type "locate" in the terminal? I don't know anything about commands and codes.

Sorry Linux noob here

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yeeiser

Wow thanks for the warning, now I know that I should not ask fro commands in 4chan...

Anyway, here is what it says when I type locale:

LANG=es_VE.iso88591
LANGUAGE=es_VE.iso88591:es
LC_CTYPE="es_VE.iso88591"
LC_NUMERIC=es_VE.iso88591
LC_TIME=es_VE.iso88591
LC_COLLATE="es_VE.iso88591"
LC_MONETARY=es_VE.iso88591
LC_MESSAGES="es_VE.iso88591"
LC_PAPER=es_VE.iso88591
LC_NAME=es_VE.iso88591
LC_ADDRESS=es_VE.iso88591
LC_TELEPHONE=es_VE.iso88591
LC_MEASUREMENT=es_VE.iso88591
LC_IDENTIFICATION=es_VE.iso88591
LC_ALL=

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ozo2003

4chan? are you out of your mind?

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yeeiser

/b/ is your friend, /b/ is love, /b/ is life..... ok no, /b/ hates life.

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yeeiser

Man I would kiss you now (well, I DONT want to kiss you, but you get the idea). This worked. I will have to keep that commmand on a note or something. Thanks a lot!

Btw is kinda stupid that Valve is trying to make their way into the Linux market and they havent fixed this kind of issues. While looking in the internet about people with the same problem I saw A LOT of people complaining that Steam wouldnt start for different reasons (seems like in Linux Steam has more bugs than in other OSs)

Anyway, thanks a lot, you made my day

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ozo2003

FYI in addition to Movac's comment, if you run any command and it asks for password, check what it does before you execute it.

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yeeiser

Thanks, this was quite helpful!

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