Steam cannot connect to the internet.

[Jason Yundt]

I'm running Kubuntu 17.04 alpha, with steam package version 1:1.0.0.52-5ubuntu1

I've just installed the steam package (i.e. the inital steam download done by the steam executable has not happened yet). Upon running steam, a window pops up informing me that steam needs to be online to update

log:

jayman@jason-laptop:~$ steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2016-12-10 08:12:09] Startup - updater built Mar 29 2016 17:40:06
[2016-12-10 08:12:09] Verifying installation...
[2016-12-10 08:12:09] Unable to read and verify install manifest /home/jayman/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.installed
[2016-12-10 08:12:09] Verification complete
[2016-12-10 08:12:09] Downloading Update...
[2016-12-10 08:12:09] Checking for available update...
[2016-12-10 08:12:10] Download failed: http error 0
[2016-12-10 08:12:10] Download failed: http error 0
[2016-12-10 08:12:10] failed to load manifest from buffer.
[2016-12-10 08:12:10] Failed to load manifest
[2016-12-10 08:12:10] Error: Download failed: http error 0
[2016-12-10 08:12:10] Error: Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again.

*at this point a window pops up (screenshot attached) upon clicking "OK"...*

[2016-12-10 08:14:52] Shutdown
threadtools.cpp (3193) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'Thread(0x0x56db5bf8/0x0xf4d1db'
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
find: ‘/home/jayman/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or directory
jayman@jason-laptop:~$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1631980, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.