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Running it on Manjaro the install prompt hangs on 'Please wait while Steam is installed....

Debug log says :  Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org

Attempted fix:  delete libz.so files in lib directory under .PlayonLinux.   This didn't do anything. 

Was able to install previously with same hardware but using Ubuntu 14.  Only hardware change is now running an SSD card paired with my old reformatted HDD drive which contains my home folder.  

Thanks in advance for any help you may feel inclined to give.