Install and Troubleshooting Steam on Zorin 12

Thank you for reading my blog about installing Steam on Zorin 12.  

It is a pretty straight forward process, but many systems run into an error after a successful install but then the program do not want to start.

In this video tutorial, I show how to install Steam.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

After you have a successful installation and Steam does not work, then troubleshooting steam is the next step.  The first thing which you need to do is to analyze your problem, it is rather simple.  first of all, you need to open up your terminal, either by searching for it in your start menu or pressing ctrl and alt and t together. Inside your terminal please type the word steam and press enter.

There are many error messages which you can receive and you can make a  simple google search by copy pasting your error message in google, without the info of your home folder and so on, but there are 2 general fixes which work for most people and here they are.  I would copy one at a time it into my terminal and press enter and test steam out!  Please keep me posted and let me know if you have any questions or comments:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' DISPLAY=:0 steam

cd $HOME/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak
cd $HOME/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak