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I'm trying to install steamcmd on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server, but when running sudo apt-get install steamcmd it errors out with 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package steamcmd

I've already updated and upgraded. How can I resolve this problem?

Zanna
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Ok, I found the answer myself.

First I needed to add multiverse to my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates main universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main universe multiverse

afterwards I added the i386 architecture:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

now after an apt-get update I am able to install it.

sudo apt-get install steamcmd
Looki
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Run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository multiverse 
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1 steamcmd

Hope this will help. Or you can check source here:

muru
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RakeshKhushwaha
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  • I'm not sure what people think is wrong with this post. It's not really the same method as [that answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/943940), though it should have the same effect. When running several commands with `sudo` already, enabling `multiverse` with `add-apt-repository` as shown here is handy, as is the link to a blog post with more details (unless some of the info there is wrong, but then I would've expected people to comment about it rather than just downvoting this and voting to delete it). If there's something wrong with this post that I haven't noticed, I hope someone comments. – Eliah Kagan Oct 03 '17 at 12:20
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Dealing with this for awhile. Used GUI to download the Steam Client. Once I did that it installed a bunch of missing dependencies. Once I tried sudo apt-get install steamcmd again it worked flawlessly.

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