Maiq
He hurt my foot!
just to make sure that you haven’t installed the steam-flatpak.
flatpak list --all and look for steam. You might be able to grep for steam like so flatpak list --all | grep steam. If steam is not there you don’t have flatpak version of steam.
If steam is not in the output there I would consult the Fedora documentation for how to downgrade a package and follow those steps to downgrade steam to an earlier version. If that doesn’t work.
As I reread this thread, I must apologize, I could have done a better triage diagnosing this issue. I have been raw-dogging adhd lately and find myself a bit scattered. I really am sorry for being a bit everywhere! I do sincerely hope that downgrading steam will solve this issue. If it doesn’t I’m out of ideas.
That steamwebhelper error I haven’t seen before but I took a look and found this github report
maybe try if you installed steam as a flatpak:
/usr/bin/flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam
You might be suffering from this bug and might have to downgrade steam till the fix reaches you. I have no Idea how to do that on fedora. I’m sure their documentation is tip top.
First do the games launch normally without error? If you have errors you might need to do the chown thing if you users are mixed up.
if everything is working fine you can use locate to find where you OS keeps steams .desktop files:
locate 'steam.desktop'
on my machine they are :
/usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
so since both the desktop files are in a root directory we have to change it with root privilege.
sudo nano /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop
will open the file in nano. Look for an entry that looks like Exec=/usr/bin/steam-runtime %U and change that to Exec=/usr/bin/steam. To save it [Crtl] + o and then [Ctrl] + m to save, then [Ctrl] + x should exit nano. You might want to back up those files before you edit them so you have something to go back to if something goes wrong.
sudo cp /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop.bak
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop.bak
here is a cheat sheet for nano
Lets first make sure that your USERS aren’t messing with steam.
What happens when you start steam from a terminal, --> /usr/bin/steam
What are the errors that your getting?
Did you change ownership of the files you moved from your old storage device to a new user you setup on second install.
ls -la from your home directory and make sure that the third and fourth entries from the output match the user you have set up. They should be the same output as what echo $USER gives.
The output should look something like this
drwxr-xr-x 1 **user** **user** 13 Apr 13 2024 .
The bold bits should match your echo $USER output.
If they don’t match your user you can use chown
To take ownership of those files you moved.
chown $USER:$USER **file**
There might be many files to take ownership of and it might be worth chowning your home directory recursively.
cd ~ && chown -R $USER:$USER .
Cable, about 30 years ago. I bought a TV a few years ago to watch my digital movie collection. A bigger screen is nice.
I’m reluctantly happy that people are starting to see that wedge issues are crafted by corporations and parroted by business bought representative to pit man against man who can barely buy bread to the point where e pluribus unum was meaningless there decades ago. Greed has no party affiliation.