Steam Package out of date error message

[Stephen Morrish]

Ubuntu Mate 16.04 Beta 2

Steam installed through the software boutique.

When opening Steam an error message shows with the following text.

Your Steam package is out of date. Please get an updated version from your package provider or directly from http://repo.steampowered.com/steam for supported distributions.
Press enter to continue:

Image of error message
http://imgur.com/GuDmIbU

Steam Launcher version 1.0.0.51

pulled from
http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/presice

I was asked by Martin Wimpress to report this bug.

Others within the Ubuntu community are running into this issue as well
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2313587

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The other issue with Steam that I'm not sure if it's related but Source games fail to launch with the following error.

http://imgur.com/v0FrOmB

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul Tansom (aptanet)]

To fix this you need to uninstall the steam-launcher package:

sudo apt remove steam-launcher

remove repo.steampowered.com from your sources and then install the steam package from multiverse:

sudo apt install steam

Once you've done this, run Steam and let it sort out its install/update/etc., then close it and move the apps and data directories to the new location:

mv ~/.steam/steamapps ~/.steam/steamapps.orig ## just in case
mv ~/.steam/userdata ~/.steam/userdata.org ## just in case

mv ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps ~/.steam/steamapps
mv ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata ~/.steam/userdata

You should then be able to start Steam without the error and have all your games and saves still available.

I'm not sure whether there is a practical way to do this automatically since the originally installed Steam package isn't from a Ubuntu supplied location. It might be possible to add a conflict in the steam package and automatically move the directories with a bit of experimentation.

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

The Steam package has been updated in future releases of Ubuntu.

The "steam-launcher" package and http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/presice repository you mention as having installed come from Valve themselves not the Ubuntu archives, so bugs are not tracked here (they are instead here https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues ). Therefore I am marking this bug as invalid.

As mentioned in the previous comment you could try removing Valve's steam and using the version from Ubuntu. But I would also recommend updating to at least Ubuntu 20.04 which has a newer Steam package.