Steam installation failure

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Installing steam from rpmfusion-nonfree-steam repo using dnf failed with below error:

Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/__pycache__/printers.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/__pycache__/printers.cpython-310.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/__pycache__/xmethods.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/__pycache__/xmethods.cpython-310.pyc from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/printers.py from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/gcc-11/python/libstdcxx/v6/xmethods.py from install of libstdc++-11.2.1-7.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.186-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.185-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.186-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.185-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.186-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.185-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.186-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.185-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.186-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.185-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/doc/libxcrypt/NEWS from install of libxcrypt-4.4.27-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libxcrypt-4.4.26-4.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man5/crypt.5.gz from install of libxcrypt-4.4.27-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libxcrypt-4.4.26-4.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids from install of libdrm-2.4.109-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libdrm-2.4.107-2.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error/NEWS from install of libgpg-error-1.43-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libgpg-error-1.42-3.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/libgpg-error/errorref.txt from install of libgpg-error-1.43-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libgpg-error-1.42-3.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libgpg-error.mo from install of libgpg-error-1.43-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libgpg-error-1.42-3.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libgpg-error.mo from install of libgpg-error-1.43-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libgpg-error-1.42-3.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/doc/glib2/NEWS from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/gapplication.1.gz from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/gdbus.1.gz from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/gio-querymodules.1.gz from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/gio.1.gz from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/glib-compile-schemas.1.gz from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/gsettings.1.gz from install of glib2-2.70.2-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package glib2-2.70.0-5.fc35.x86_64
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You are missing the exact command you have used to install steam.

When using fedora, everything should be fine, please use yum update first.

If using ostree (silverblue/ostree), you will likely need an updated ostree system. Please rebase on current before installing steam as it needs the same 32bit library counterpart as used by ostree.

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Thanks for your reply, I used sudo dnf install steam -y and the details above are the error output from this command.

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As @kwizart says, you need to update your system first.

What happens is steam needs a 32 bit version of many packages, e.g. libstdc++. You already have the 64 bit version of libstdc++ installed, but not the latest version of it. The 32 and 64 bit versions of a package should be able to coexist, but only if they are of the same version.

So try dnf upgrade first, and then run your dnf install steam.

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There are also some options with dnf that can help, such as --allowerasing, --refresh, --skip-broken, --best, etc.
Whenever you get errors about package mismatches, the first response should always be that you do a full system upgrade, and the best way to do that is with dnf --refresh upgrade. Once the upgrade completes then try the install again, and it often will work.

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