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From: Davyd McColl <davydm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:46:25
Message-Id: 164c8089cc8.278f.83c5c26c404a765ed2e55e3ab0c1c65d@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too... by Alan Grimes
1 Perhaps just back up ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps and reset steam, then
2 close steam and copy back your steamapps?
3
4 I've done this on Windows before, for similar reasons. Haven't needed to
5 with steam on Linux - and it just updated about 1/2 an hour ago.
6
7 -d
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9
10 On July 23, 2018 18:17:45 Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote:
11
12 > KDE is still very very broken.
13 >
14 > Steam is almost 1/100th as bad as filezilla at pushing out stupid
15 > updates to their beta client, which is pretty awful, whereas filezilla
16 > is unbelievable...
17 >
18 > Anyway, their client now doesn't load:
19 >
20 > ##################
21 > atg@tortoise ~ $ steam
22 > which: no gnome-terminal in
23 > (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/7.3.0:/usr/lib/llvm/6/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/5/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/4/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/bin:/usr/lib64/subversion/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/cuda/bin)
24 > Package curl needs to be installed
25 > Package python-apt needs to be installed
26 > Package xterm needs to be installed
27 > Package xz-utils needs to be installed
28 > Package zenity needs to be installed
29 > Package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 needs to be installed
30 > Package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 needs to be installed
31 > Package libc6:i386 needs to be installed
32 > Running Steam on gentoo 1.0.0.54-r4 64-bit
33 > STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled by the user
34 > Pins up-to-date!
35 > atg@tortoise ~ $
36 > ################
37 >
38 > The troubleshooting page gives
39 > |user $||steam --reset
40 >
41 > But then I have modded the living hell out of several of the games I
42 > have and I  ___REALLY___ don't want to re-install those, is there a
43 > softer reinstall that just clears out Steam's binaries without touching
44 > the game library?
45 >
46 >
47 >
48 >
49 > Also, I'm version frozen on my linux kernel at 4.15.14... Is it getting
50 > time to jump to 4.16?  I'm much too shy to go to 4.17 at the moment...
51 > No complaints about 4.15 except that it's a horrible archaic monolithic
52 > kernel supporting a system that should have been obsoleted in the '90s.
53 > |
54 >
55 >
56 > --
57 > Please report bounces from this address to atg@×××××××××.com
58 >
59 > Powers are not rights.
60 >
61 >