Bug#956122: steamcmd: installs directly into ~/.steam, which is not as intended by upstream
Simon McVittie
smcv at collabora.com
Tue Apr 7 16:59:03 BST 2020
On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 at 16:47:34 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> * The Steam installation directory contains a steamapps or SteamApps
> subdirectory (I'm not sure which one is canonical)
It's canonically steamapps. Very old Steam installations might have a
SteamApps directory instead, and that name is still supported, but isn't
created by new installations.
> if [ ! -e ~/.steam ]
> then
> STEAMROOT="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME/.local/share"}"
This should be "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME/.local/share"}/Steam" of course.
(I did say this suggestion was untested :-)
smcv
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