So i reinstalled Steam, but it won’t recognize the games that were/are installed from the last time I had it. It wants me to install them, but when it does, I get a disk read error in steam. Downloaded from Flatpac.
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.6.40-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
Whilst not necessarily of any help, any particular reason you’re not using the repo version?
$ pamac search steam
decklike 20240626-1 extra
Files for Valve's GamepadUI
python-steam 1.4.4-4 extra
Python package for interacting with Steam
linux-steam-integration 0.7.3-14 multilib
Helper for enabling better Steam integration on Linux
gamescope-session-steam-plus-git r1.6835776-1 extra
Gamescope session for running OpenGamepadUI in overlay mode with Steam
gamescope-session-steam-git r8.015e098-2 extra
Steam Big Picture session based on gamescope for ChimeraOS
steam-removable-media-git 24.07.r45.3ee6f2c-1 extra
Automounts and imports removable media as a Steam library
steam-native-runtime 1.0.0.75-4 multilib
Native replacement for the Steam runtime using system libraries
steam-aui-config 20231126-1 extra
Files for Steam AUI Configuration
steam 1.0.0.79-1 [Installed] multilib
Valve's digital software delivery system
You are probably less likely to lose your configurations this way.
New to linux and i have no idea what the repo version is, or how to install it.
sudo pacman -Syu steam
is the better way, IMHO.
It might already be installed (Pacman will tell you if this is the case); I can’t remember if I explicitly installed it.
Repo version = it’s in the regular repositories, without having to use a container such as Flatpak or AppImage, etc…
I’ll try this. Should i uninstall the Flatpak version first?
It will save some disk space if nothing else. I don’t use any flatpak or appimage stuff, so I don’t know if it will give separate launchers for each version.
Okay, i’ll uninstall. Thank you.
Tried the command and it didn’t work.
Now that is really odd:
$ sudo pacman -Syu steam
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra 7.9 MiB 830 KiB/s 00:10 [------------------------------------] 100%
multilib is up to date
warning: steam-1.0.0.79-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) steam-1.0.0.79-1
Total Download Size: 3.79 MiB
Total Installed Size: 3.96 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
Do you mean that, or removing the Flatpak version?
When using the Sudo pacman command. it says it downloaded, but there was nothing.
That’s there, but It didn’t go away when i uninstalled the Flatpac version.
flatpak uninstall flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
then
flatpak uninstall --unused
Okay, ran those. Now run the Sudo install for Steam?
correct
I still have the icons in my Start Menu though, will that effect anything?
This should be done after a restart.
You can also use the “Edit menu entries” tool to reset the entire start menu and then set it up again.
Will do. Thank you for your help. Never had this issue before and don’t want to lose my steam access.
That worked! Thank you!