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pinkwah / steam-appmanifest

Generates appmanifest_APPID.acf files in ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps
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"installdir" field should be set #15

Closed MingweiSamuel closed 8 years ago

MingweiSamuel commented 8 years ago

I installed NEKOPARA Vol. 0 using the python script. However, when I looked at my common folder, I saw that all the files were thrown there instead of being in a separate folder, like all the other games. Looking at the appmanifest files, I saw that the "installdir" field was set to "", instead of something useful.

The script should supply a "installdir" field if it is blank to prevent this from happening.

pinkwah commented 8 years ago

Does it work when you set the installdir manually before starting Steam?

MingweiSamuel commented 8 years ago

I will test that tomorrow

AbigailBuccaneer commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/leovp/steamfiles can parse ~/.steam/steam/appcache/appinfo.vdf to find the canonically correct installdir.

pinkwah commented 8 years ago

Oh wow, this is great. Time to rewrite this project.

Am I correct in thinking that the appinfo.vdf file contains all of the user's programs, regardless if they're installed or not?

AbigailBuccaneer commented 8 years ago

It seems to contain all of the user's games and tools, regardless of whether they're installed or whether they're available for the current platform.

pinkwah commented 8 years ago

I have started a separate project over at https://github.com/dotfloat/Vapour, which is intended to be a serious thing, unlike this appmanifest hack.

Basically what I want is to be able to write vapour install --windows "ultimate doom" and have it use SteamCMD to download it somewhere without restarting Steam. (And eventually have a GUI, of course.)

I could also do auto-updates and launch games using source ports or wine. ;)

It'll take a few weeks before it's ready, but I think I'll leave this issue as WONTFIX, unless someone else wants to have fun fixing it.

directhex commented 8 years ago

unless someone else wants to have fun fixing it.

https://github.com/dotfloat/steam-appmanifest/pull/17