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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?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Sounds like you broke your install of steam. Uninstall all versions, rm every location they were installed, and just reinstall.

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Isnt there an option to purge it per pacman?

[–] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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/steam or ~/.steam

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

/.steam is just symlink so delete both

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