Source: steam Version: 1.0.0.54-2 Severity: important Valve has their own official repo and Steam packages.
Below I've pasted the contents of their steam-launcher_1.0.0.54_all.deb As you can see, it ships conflicting files with Debian (and Ubuntu 16.10+)'s steam and steam-devices binaries. Bug originally reported at https://launchpad.net/bugs/1638463 Valve distribution info ------------------------------- I got the package from http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/ Confusingly, the same file is also distributed as http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb (but it's still the steam-launcher package) which is linked to from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux The distributed sources.list has this content: deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam Ideas for Solutions -------------------------- I think this will need coordination with the Valve packager to resolve this. 1. Maybe Valve could adopt the same package split as the Debian package. For Valve's purposes, they might not like having more than one package to distribute though. 2. Maybe the Debian package could be unsplit and renamed to steam-launcher to match what Valve is distributing. File List ----------- /usr/bin/steamdeps /usr/bin/steam /usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop /usr/share/pixmaps/steam.png /usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/steam.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/steam.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/steam.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/steam.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/steam.png /usr/share/man/man6/steam.6.gz /usr/share/doc/steam-launcher/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/steam-launcher/copyright /usr/share/doc/steam/README /usr/share/doc/steam/steam_install_agreement.txt.gz /lib/udev/rules.d/60-HTC-Vive-perms.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rules /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/steam.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
