Since I no longer had an icon for Steam in Gnome, I tried to reinstall Steam via pacman -S steam. That didn't bring me an icon in the Gnome overview either, but that was because I had created a separate *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications. I removed this and the icon in the overview came back. But now I have the problem that the games I call up via Steam no longer start. For one game, the launcher starts, but then displays the message “Please start Steam first” (Steam is already running, otherwise I wouldn't be able to start the game). Other games bring up the message that no wine-mono is supposedly installed. But it is installed.
A reinstallation of Steam has not changed anything. What can I do?
13 Comments
StefanT@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Did you reboot sometime while testing? Chances are that e.g. a new kernel or Nvidia driver version broke the current system and needs a reboot to fix it.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
What does the output aay when you run it from the terminal?
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Sounds like you broke your install of steam. Uninstall all versions, rm every location they were installed, and just reinstall.
MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
Do you know which locations, i have to remove?
Epzillon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Dunno if im stupid here but:
whereis steamLuffy879@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Isnt there an option to purge it per pacman?
MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
No, because the steam package is only the launcher, which downloads steam to the user's home directory most times it's either
~/.local/share/steamor~/.steamMoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
I uninstalled Steam with
pacman -Runs steam. After that there were still several folders within my home. I removed these and then installed steam withpacman -Syusteam aga in. Luckily I didn't need to reinstall the games as they are installed on a separate partition. I simply remounted the library and can now start the games without any error messages. Thanks for your help.BTW: Whats the difference between
pacman -Rnsandpacman -Runs? What does u mean?MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
If I interpret the wiki correctly, it is only takes effect when removing groups. If you remove a group and some of those packages are dependencies of another installed package, you get an error. The
-uor--unneededflag strikes those needed packages from the list and removes only the unneeded ones.Edit: I just looked at the man page for pacman. There appear to be other usages besides groups. It probably does the same as with groups just with explicitly stated packages.
MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
Many thx. I hadn't referred to groups, but at least that's how it makes sense.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
/.steam is just symlink so delete both
meliodas_101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What is the default locations for installation of programs in arch ?
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
~/.steam I believe, but check what your launcher points to.