After Nvidia driver installation when I try to run Steam I am getting this error:
steam: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
I found this question and one of the answers that suggest installing:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
I have already installed libgl1-mesa-glx:i386. Than I found this. It suggests making a symlink to 32bit libGL. How can do that? Do you have any other suggestions?
This problem on 64-bits systems is caused by /usr/lib being earlier in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH than /usr/lib32. Steam tries the 64-bit libraries and complains, without looking any further.
It can be fixed however by in ~/Steam/steam.sh but that file seems to be restored to the original version every time steam is ran.
I fixed it by creating a script that does this:
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
steam $*
This prepends /usr/lib32 to the library path, then starts steam (with the script's original arguments).
Now /usr/lib32 is found in the path before /usr/lib, and steam will successfully use the 32-bit libraries.
You may also want to add the line
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
to /usr/bin/steam, it will have the same effect, as long as you add it before the very last line. You'll need to sudo to edit /usr/lib/steam.
/usr/bin/steam is likely to be overwritten when steam is updated.I use the latter method, while keeping the script as a backup. That way, if /usr/bin/steam gets overwritten, I can simply copy paste the line again from the script to fix it.
Fixed this in raring ringtail (xubuntu 13.04) with nVidia 319.17 drivers by adding /usr/lib32 to a new file:
$ sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/lib32.conf
then running:
$ sudo ldconfig
Since the file /etc/ld.so.conf contains include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf, any file in that directory with the extension .conf gets parsed.
From: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/321
I got the same issue and solved it by doing this:
$ cd ~/.steam/bin
$ ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 .
This worked for me as well.
I ran into the same problem, but with skype. All the solutions above (creating symlinks, configuring LD_LIBRARY_PATH) didn't work for me.
I finally found help in the post already mentioned above - but with a different solution.
It seems that the nvidia updater (when asking for permission to install OpenGL 32-bit compatibility libraries) messed up and removed /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.
Reinstalling the libgl1 library did help:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
Fixed this for Mint 14 with the newest 64 bit Nvidia drivers 310.32 with the 32bit driver support installed in
/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib
by adding
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
After the first "export" in the beginning of the /usr/bin/steam file.
If you're using Steam for Linux limited beta, I would post that on the Steam for Linux forums. They should have better help, and if it's a problem with the software itself, the developers will be able to fix it. Also, if you're using a 64-bit OS, there are plenty of people there that have probably gone through the troubles you have, and, therefore, know exactly what to do.
I had exactly same issue on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 64-bit.
I resolved it by re-installing NVIDIA drivers with the 32-bit GL libraries (after installing those libraries steam requested).
I just assume that installing those other 32-bit graphics libraries broke some linking, and reinstalling NVIDIA drivers with those real 32-bit libraries fixes the linking problem.
I had this problem with Skype. I fixed it by installing official Nvidia driver again and install 32 bit compatibility library during installation.
