Bug#1025970: steam: SteamVR cannot find "getcap" to finish its installation

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Dec 12 19:43:20 GMT 2022


On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 at 18:13:38 +0000, Julian Groß wrote:
> when installing SteamVR inside Steam, it requires the getcap command which it apparently cannot find.
> getcap is at /usr/sbin/getcap on my system which is not in my users PATH. I assume this is the actual issue.

Debian does not control where proprietary Steam or SteamVR code looks for
executables, so please report this to
<https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/>.

(Technically we could set PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin in the Debian-specific
wrapper script, but that doesn't seem like necessarily a great idea since
this affects all parts of Steam and all games, and there's a lot in
/usr/sbin other than getcap.)

Thanks,
    smcv



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