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Flatpack Steam won't let me instal games on a secondary drive #1183
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Same here, Want to make a unified Steam Library for Linux and Windows in an external drive, formated in NTFS. Running VanillaOS, which should be irrelevant (from my understanding) as Flatpak runs similarly to a container... Adding directory via |
I also have this issue on Fedora 38. I have done If I create a new one, it seems to create the steamapps subdirectory, but it doesn't actually list it in the Steam GUI. |
Mount the drive (/mnt/games for me), then add that path to Steam via Flatseal. If flatpak apps aren't allowed to access something directly, paths show up as /run/user/etc. |
I have been trying to find a solution for this for a while, now. The exact path to my external Steam library is set, and starting Steam I can indeed add the external library, however it can't see any game. All games look like they aren't installed. When I try to reinstall one, the process hangs when downloading data. It seems like Steam has no read access to the external library? When I browse the files of that library, it correctly opens Nautilus in the |
You have to whitelist additional drives in the flatpak sandbox. The /run/user location is a temporary address punched through xdg-portals because you didn't allow access. It wont work.
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@Gamertech thank you for the response, however this is what I did. But, now I have the other problem described, here : flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#689 where Steam won't show my files, but Well, this is not helping making Linux welcoming for Windows users! |
I am currently running Linux mint 21.1 vera and one of the recent updates to the flatpack version of steam has made it so that I cannot install games to my secondary drive where I intend to store them. Even after taking steps to make sure make sure the disk has appropriate permissions. When I make a new library on that drive and try to install a game it stops and reports a disk write error every time.
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