I just tried launching Steam after a long period of inactivity. At first I tried launching Steam by clicking the icon in the program menu, resulting in nothing happening at all. I've never had an issue with this before. I then tried typing steam
in terminal, which returns the following message:
~$ steam
Couldn't import apt, please install python3-apt or update steamdeps for your distribution.
steam.sh[396141]: Running Steam on ubuntu 20.04 64-bit
steam.sh[396141]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[396216]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[396141]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
max open descriptors set to 9216
I tried installing python3-apt
, but apt
returns it is already installed. I am unable to find any package called steamdeps
, and I can find no useful info on how to update them. I've tried reinstalling (sudo apt reinstall steam
) and uninstalling and installing (sudo apt remove steam steam-launcher
and sudo apt reinstall steam
) Steam again, but I get the same error. I'm at a loss of what to do. Any ideas what is causing this issue, and how to resolve it?