I cannot connect drive to steam.
When I click the
+ button on steam and select a drive, it doesn't show up as available in storage, even tho I selected the correct mounted folder for it.46 Replies
(All drives are formated ext4)
Show a screenshot after you click +
Okay
Also specify the method that you installed Steam
Oopsie discord is showing too on secound screen
But yeah
I installed it from Bazzite Portal after the first boot.
also, maybe related or may not be, but systemctl gives an error when I try it on the Arch Distrobox.
What is the full path to the steamapps folder?
For me, I had to add the parent to the steamapps folder
/home/Blank/.local/share/Steam/that's an internal folder path. it also shows that it's in the Steam library in your screenshot
I don't understand the issue
/home/Blank/.local/share/Steam/
what's the issue?
The other one
But doesn't matter I see now
is your issue with how the drive is labeled in the top box?
this?
That's not really the issue, forget that, but adding new drives is.
I realised I'm dumb and the 2 path doesn't have to match
yes, that's why I asked for the path to the steamapps folder
What steamapps folder?
for example, mine is
/run/media/user/second/games/steamapps, so I have to add /run/media/user/second/games/OHHHH
whichever one you're trying to add
I seee
So not the internal one, the one in Distrobox it's kind of confusing.
My bad
It doesn't open it, when I try to browse it
the distrobox implementation doesn't use any weird or obscure folders to store games. it uses
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common or your secondary drives all the same
what doesn't open what?I'm confused on how find this.
/run/media/user/second/games/steamapps
or what does that meanthat is the folder in which my games are stored on my second drive
if you don't know where you store your games, I cannot help further
/run/media/Blank/240e6d21-08c2-4980-b91e-3266fd4b2f18/
That's my secoundary drive and I didn't automounted it yet.
looks mounted
just click that
Yes I did
then select the parent folder to the steamapps folder in there
yes
I got it
I clicked on
OK in this window
And nothing happend
it didn't add my drive to steam
The default drive doesn't open in dolphin, when I click on "browse folder", under the
... tab for the drive.are you sure that's your drive then?
Yes
show me the games in Dolphin
I'm gonna install
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection so you can see it./home/Blank/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/
That is my default drive that's added to steam by default.
that is your internal drive. that is irrelevant
That's where my games are, I don't have any games folder anywhere else.
I cannot add more drives to steam other than that drive
Which is the default, where I have my OS installed.
All the other drives are empty ext4 formated.
I formated them with gparted.
Should I add a steamapps folder to every drive by hand?
no, I didn't realize it was a completely empty drive. merely adding steamapps isn't enough. you'd need the library vdf file too. let me look into that
It was my bad, I got confused and carried away with the details.
I tried switching the Steam client to the beta, and I also don't appear to be able to add a new library folder. weird.
the Steam client is kinda messy since the UI upgrade though
I have been only able to add existing libraries
:c Welp, I'll just wait a little until someone either finds any solution. I'll browse DuckDuckGO for solutions in the mean time, maybe someone has something that can help.
Since i'm new to linux sort of or I mean... I'm not that new, but I'm new to this immutable thing and Fedora and preinstalled apps and flatpak (I only used it last year on the Steam Deck). Last time I used on my Linux on my main PC was in 2019 or 2020 and I used Arch.
I installed it and installed some random programs and games with pacman.
and before that I used ubuntu/mint/pop/manjaro, altho manjaro was a bit weird for me.
I used alot of tutorials from github/stackoverflow/ubuntu forum/Arch Wiki, but I got lazy over years, because I switched back to windows.
And I since I've used Linux on Steam deck a little (I installed Win11 after like a month and later a modified windows called Windeck) I didn't experience any new stuff that Linux is capable of.
It's quite amazing how much it improved in the past 2-3 years.
(or more, but I haven't noticed)
Fixed by reinstalling the whole thing
(Partly)
Same issue, but now with NVidia one. (Steam says, "location not writeable")
(/run/media/ isn't writeable, that was the issue all along.)
Solved by mounting it elsewhere