Clarification about the latest Steam update for Fedora 44 (around today?)

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I updated multiple PCs and read this (with the “replacing Steam” line in red).

Installing:
 steam-arch-transition                     noarch 0:1.0.0.85-10.fc44                rpmfusion-nonfree-upda   0.0   B
   replacing steam                         i686   0:1.0.0.85-6.fc44                 <unknown>               19.4 MiB
Installing dependencies:
 openal-soft                               i686   0:1.24.2-6.fc44                   fedora                   1.7 MiB
 steam                                     x86_64 0:1.0.0.85-10.fc44                rpmfusion-nonfree-upda  19.4 MiB

Is this just the “no more 32bit libraries” update?

Where can I, and anyone else, read (or watch, inform ourselves) more about this from recent sources?

2

Interesting question. I thought we had a solution to that, but I dont know.

The other possibility is RPM Fusion being a bit out of sync, if that is the case, it will fix itself in a couple of days.

Edit: I tried to install Steam, for the first time, and no problems showed up.

3

Steam is working on a 64 bit client, this Fedora packaging update is just a reflection of that.

The package type has been made 64-bit, but it still uses the 32-bit Steam client and 32-bit libraries.

4

I did an update today and it installed the steam-arch-transition package and replaced the older steam-0:1.0.0.85-6.fc44.i686 package with no errors.

5

Installed those last night and have not had any issues, 32bit still there.

6

dnf info or dnf changelog may help. In this case:

dnf info steam-arch-transition
[...]
Description    : This package is used to migrate Steam installations from the
               : legacy i686 package layout to the x86_64 package layout.
               : 
               : It exists only to handle package replacement and dependency
               : changes during upgrades, and can be safely removed once the
               : transition is complete.
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Thanks.

This is basically the answer I was looking for.

8

Didn’t complete the operation, but at first look, it doesn’t look like a good idea.

$ LANG=C sudo dnf remove steam-arch-transition
Package                                             Arch       Version                                             Repository                               Size
Removing:
 steam-arch-transition                              noarch     0:1.0.0.85-10.fc44                                  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates             0.0   B
Removing unused dependencies:
 libICE                                             i686       0:1.1.2-4.fc44                                      fedora                              197.2 KiB
 libnsl                                             i686       0:2.43-6.fc44                                       updates                             105.2 KiB
 libnsl                                             x86_64     0:2.43-6.fc44                                       updates                             101.8 KiB
 ntsync-autoload                                    noarch     0:11.0-3.fc44                                       fedora                                7.0   B
 steam                                              x86_64     0:1.0.0.85-10.fc44                                  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates            19.4 MiB
 steam-devices                                      noarch     0:1.0.0.101^git20260123.39e7bd0-8.fc44              updates                              14.9 KiB

Transaction Summary:
 Removing:           7 packages

After this operation, 20 MiB will be freed (install 0 B, remove 20 MiB).
Is this ok [Y/n]: n
Operation aborted by the user.
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Effectively. either (I think, not tested):

  • use dnf remove --no-autoremove
  • mark steam as user installed with dnf mark user steam