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Just a few days ago, I was able to install steam no problem into a VM (Ubuntu 17.10). However, I setup a live usb and in general I've been having a lot of installation problems. Now, I get this error from synaptic when trying to download steam:

steam-installer:
 Depends:steam(=1:1.0.0.54+repack-2ubuntu5) but is not installable

When running apt-get install steam (yes I did apt-get update and other ways to download steam). I get a similar error in the terminal:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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 (= 1:1.0.0.54+repack-2ubuntu5) but it is     not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've tried fixing this with apt-get -f install, and it says it didn't do anything. I've ran a scripts posted on this website, still nothing. Downloading the steam installer manually and running it through software installer gives the same unable to install error. I've also tried the various other ways of downloading steam.

My setup: regular non-persistent live usb. I set persistency through grub menu (access through e). I have a partitioned part of the drive which I set to casper-rw. Persistency works. I've reset it by clearing that partition and reseting it.

Why can't I download steam?

EDIT: I tried installing wine as well, basically the same error. There may be something wrong that isn't allowing me to download stuff.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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:
 winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 3.0.0~artful)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Using synaptic I managed to download flash player, and other various programs just fine. They work. However I get this error:

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in       /etc/apt/sources.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list:4
W: Target Sources (restricted/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list:4
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So the errors weren't fixed, but I found a workaround. I downloaded a bunch of debian package installers, downloaded steam from website, and eventually one actually worked! Then the terminal opened up, automatically downloaded the dependencies, and installed the launcher. Now, the launcher is downloaded. Next, go back to synaptic and download the installer! It should work now. Hope this helps people with similar problems!

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Here is what I did to solve this problem. It took me 2 hours to figure this out. I may have taken unnecessary steps.

  1. sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade

  2. sudo apt --fix-broken install

  3. Clicked this download link:

    https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steam.deb

  4. cd ~/Downloads sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb

  5. Clicked the program that installed and followed instructions.

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