On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 15:40, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Em abril 4, 2019 0:25 Alexandre Oliveira via arch-general escreveu: > > It seems like the steam-native package is broken as of March 21, > > according to this bug report[1]. > > > > Installing libselinux and pcre seems to fix the issue. I don't know if > > it's a good idea to write about it here, but I'd like to get this patch > > mainstreamed, instead of having to install another package to workaround > > this bug. > > > > [1] > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62095?project=5&string=steam-native-runtime > > > > Hi Alexandre, > > As I have just commented on the bug, I cannot reproduce this bug. And I use steam on an > almost daily basis. > > It looks like it's a bug on upstream steam and does not affect all users. Even though we > can patch things on occasion to fix broken packages, we tend to wait for upstream fixes > if the issue is not critical or a fix already exists. Are you sure you're running steam-native? I get the exact same issue with `steam-native`, while `steam` has a working browser (but some games have other issues). It seems unlikely to me that steam would require libpcre.so.3 only for some users but not for others. While it is definitely a problem caused by upstream, they officially only support some Ubuntu distributions. There's no guarantee that steam will solve this on their end. > Also, the patch you referred to, is not an actual patch, just a package that creates an > ugly fix, by creating a symlink to libpcre. That's not the right way to fix this issue. A better fix is mentioned on the steam forum [1] by a WorMzy: > $ export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0:/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0" > $ steam-native Apparently those libraries still come from the steam distribution, even with steam-native, and those pull in libpcre.so.3 and libselinux.so.1. Preloading the system versions avoids that. [1] https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/1848072002764995823/#c1769259642875894556 > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini
