Bug#1064354: steam-installer: Unable to install steam-installer

[Wesley Schwengle]

Package: steam-installer
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: wesley at schwengle.net

Dear Maintainer,

I wanted to install the steam-installer package, this fails:

$ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '1:1.0.0.79~ds-2' (Debian:unstable, Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'steam-installer'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I don't have steam-libs-i386, but I do see steam-libs:

$ apt-cache policy steam-libs
steam-libs:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2
  Version table:
     1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 900
        900 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
     1:1.0.0.75+ds-6 10
         10 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages

Which I can also install:
$ sudo apt-get install steam-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  libudev0 nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-vulkan-icd
Recommended packages:
  libasound2-plugins libva-glx2 mesa-vulkan-drivers steam-devices zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  steam-libs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 38.9 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 steam-libs amd64 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 [18.9 kB]
Fetched 18.9 kB in 1s (32.1 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package steam-libs:amd64.
(Reading database ... 474365 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../steam-libs_1%3a1.0.0.79~ds-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking steam-libs:amd64 (1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) ...
Setting up steam-libs:amd64 (1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) ...

I tried reinstalled steam-installer, but this failed (as expected, but tried it
none the less):

$ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '1:1.0.0.79~ds-2' (Debian:unstable, Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'steam-installer'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I cannot seem to install it for ANY version of the steam-installer:

$ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/testing
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '1:1.0.0.79~ds-2' (Debian:unstable, Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'steam-installer'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ sudo apt-get install steam-installer/stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '1:1.0.0.75+ds-6' (Debian:12.5/stable [amd64]) for 'steam-installer'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs (= 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6) but 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2 is to be installed
                   Depends: steam-libs-i386 (>= 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've also tried to install it by executing:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

to no avail.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (10, 'stable-updates'), (10, 'stable-security'), (10, 'oldstable-security'), (10, 'oldoldstable'), (10, 'stable'), (10, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages steam-installer depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.86
ii  steam-libs             1:1.0.0.79~ds-2
pn  steam-libs-i386        <none>
pn  zenity | yad           <none>

steam-installer recommends no packages.

steam-installer suggests no packages.