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I have recently moved over from SteamOS which is Debian Wheazy. None of the other fixes have not worked, I tried getting steam both through Steam itself and the Ubuntu Center.

Wadih M.
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Kobe Lockwood
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Assuming libc.so.6 is the only one you are missing, open a terminal and execute the following commands to install the missing library (be careful here and do not accept changes unless you are happy with the changes ie may uninstall stuff you want to keep!!):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

Please post any errors.

mchid
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As of time of this post, using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, I first tried installing using steam_latest.deb from their website, but got the OP error.

To resolve I ran this in terminal:

sudo apt-get install steam

And it would work after.

Wadih M.
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If like me, mchid answer didn't solved your issue, try making a symlink to libc.so.6 and reinstalling steam from steamcmd:

find /lib -name libc.so.6
ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6
mkdir ~/steamcmd2 && cd $_
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz
tar -xvzf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz
./steamcmd.sh

Then

./steam.sh
KrisWebDev
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Install Steam

To install all the missing packages automatically without any 404 errors or missing libc.so.6 or bad ELF.

Enter Software & Updates and uncheck all except the first one: Canonical-supported free and open-source software (main) and close the window.

That's all. Now, after steam is installed and running, you can go Software & Updates and check to the original state.

Benny
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