Hello! Iām very new to linux, so I apologize if I havenāt taken steps yet that youād normally do (such as a command line or something). So, hereās my problem - I recently installed Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 on my aging laptop (fantastic!), and Steam wonāt launch. Back in its day, this was a gaming laptop, and has a GeForce 9600M GT graphics card and Intel Core Duo 64-bit processor (and came with Windows Vista, shudder). I canāt figure out how to get Steam to launch at all, literally nothing appears to happen when I click the icon (desktop or menu). Iāve tried reinstalling it, but got no different result. I went to uninstall it, and I was warned in a popup that said I was trying to remove essential system files (āPackage zlib1g:i386 cannot be removedā). So I canāt do a clean install of Steam. Could this launching trouble have something to do with the graphics card? Do I need to download special drivers for it?
Thank you SO much for any help!