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Installing Steam from BOTH package and Flathub? Any gotchas? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by million@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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As the title says, I am looking to install both the package version (on OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and Flatpak version. I've been running the package version for awhile and it's been fine but I want to play with the Flatpak version to see how that compares - partially because I may eventually go for an immutable distro.

I know how to do this, I am just curious if I shouldn't do it or if there anything I should be aware of. Will my game library just work between the two?

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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Library sharing between two instances of Steam works great. My shared ~/Games/SteamLibrary works well in Steam flatpak and Steam native, and I've done that for years.

[–] million@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Since I installed native first I wonder if I can point the flatpak version to that. I actually have no idea where it is but I assume it’s outside of the home directory.

Might make more sense to move it into home like you are saying for more seamless flatpak compatibility.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I also had to add ~/Games to the flatpak sandbox with flatseal to allow Steam flatpak to access my library.

Steam settings should show the path to where your library is located.

[–] million@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Follow up, have both the Flatpak version and package steam up and running. Moved my game library to ~/Games/Steam. I added ~/Games/Steam:rw (and later ~/Games/Steam:create) to my Flatpak permissions and tried to install a game that already existed to make Flatpak Steam realize it was there, Steam instead gives me a "Disk Write Error". Did you hit this at all, any idea what it may be?

EDIT: Fix it, or it magically fixed itself. I removed the Steam library and re-added it and that seemed to make it happy.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Great to hear it works! I've also had issues with the SteamLibrary not being detected a few times over the years, but that also happened on SteamOS so I guess it's a bug.