Rpm-ostree cannot upgrade... some package conflict with Steam... help please!

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Hello folks. Today my Silverblue 34 doesn’t want to upgrade. It seems there’s some conflict with my Steam package… but I want to keep it! :cry:

❯ rpm-ostree upgrade
2 metadata, 0 content objects fetched; 788 B transferred in 2 seconds; 0 bytes content written
Checking out tree 7d74af4... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora updates rpmfusion-nonfree-steam google-chrome fedora-cisco-openh264 code rpmfusion-free rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver rpmfusion-free-updates updates-archive
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2021-04-23T10:47:57Z
rpm-md repo 'updates' (cached); generated: 2021-07-23T00:59:08Z
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-steam' (cached); generated: 2021-05-05T21:28:52Z
rpm-md repo 'google-chrome' (cached); generated: 2021-07-21T19:37:31Z
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2021-02-23T00:49:00Z
rpm-md repo 'code' (cached); generated: 2021-07-23T20:43:45Z
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-free' (cached); generated: 2021-04-25T18:10:08Z
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver' (cached); generated: 2021-07-20T06:41:57Z
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-free-updates' (cached); generated: 2021-07-19T22:32:53Z
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive' (cached); generated: 2021-07-24T02:46:54Z
Importing rpm-md... done
Resolving dependencies... done
error: No se pudo cancelar la transacción; 1 problema detectado:
 Problem: fontconfig-2.13.93-6.fc34.i686 has inferior architecture
  - package gtk2-2.24.33-4.fc34.i686 requires libfontconfig.so.1, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both fontconfig-2.13.93-6.fc34.x86_64 and fontconfig-2.13.94-2.fc34.x86_64
  - package steam-1.0.0.70-3.fc34.i686 requires gtk2(x86-32), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests

This is my current packages layout:

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree://fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210718.0 (2021-07-18T00:45:28Z)
                BaseCommit: 7f1141618615f5b6a60102c3870357556ff84fdbb293607a79e831a9bd2a241e
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
       RemovedBasePackages: pipewire-pulseaudio 0.3.31-2.fc34
           LayeredPackages: code fedora-workstation-repositories ffmpeg firewall-config fish
                            gnome-boxes gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 hunspell-es kmod-nvidia
                            langpacks-es libvirt-client moby-engine openssh-askpass pipx
                            pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils python3-invoke qjackctl steam sushi
                            totem xclip xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
             LocalPackages: xow-0.4-1.fc32.x86_64 rpmfusion-free-release-34-1.noarch

  ostree://fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210714.0 (2021-07-14T00:41:31Z)
                BaseCommit: 8c78207908553f6aa1352f062e42ea0d9cedc94e3267170aa4f7d6e4aa7a1837
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
       RemovedBasePackages: pipewire-pulseaudio 0.3.31-2.fc34
           LayeredPackages: code fedora-workstation-repositories ffmpeg firewall-config fish
                            gnome-boxes gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 hunspell-es kmod-nvidia
                            langpacks-es libvirt-client moby-engine openssh-askpass pipx
                            pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils python3-invoke qjackctl steam sushi
                            totem xclip xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
             LocalPackages: xow-0.4-1.fc32.x86_64 rpmfusion-free-release-34-1.noarch

What could I do to upgrade (without uninstalling Steam)? Thanks!

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You have to remove .i686 packages that the .x86_64 can put in place. Probably you have to install steam as flatpak (if possible) that they are isolated and not interfere with .x86_64 packages from your system.

3

There’s a steam flatpak, but it has too many issues.

Debian fixed this long ago with their multiarch support. Can’t something similar be done in fedora?

4

Could you run steam out of a toolbox container?

Most of my issues with the steam flatpak were resolved by installing the proton runtime separately.

5

Well, at the end it wasn’t necessary. Yesterday the conflict was fixed on the package and rpm-ostree upgrade just worked fine.