True. But then as Windows users we’ve come to expect that downloading an installer file from the web and then running it locally is the state of the art in user experiences. It’s not exactly “click on a link, go get a cup of coffee and then start browsing the list of games to play” either way.
On-
You got this, right?
Yes I did. The wall of text is pretty offputting, and the idea that “you have held broken packages” is hard to interpret. There are “broken packages”, and it’s suggesting I have taken it upon myself to “hold” them?
I did get the general gist that there was probably a 32 bit library dependency as the underlying issue, but I naively understood it was the job of the package developer and apt together to deal with dependencies (all of them). I didn’t make the leap to the fact that the 32 bit lib was a whole 'nother thing (a foreign architecture) and needed to be dealt with elsewhere.
So there you go. Maybe a nights sleep and fresh eyes might have taken me down the right Google path eventually, but the responses here helped shortcut that.
I have Steam installing as I type. It slightly offends me that it seems to install it’s libs and executables into a subdirectory of my home path (so 5 users on a machine means 5 copies of everything?) but presumably there’s a reason for that.