Directory correction in the Install guide

popsUlfr / Proton

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components. Gallium Nine with some extras.

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Directory correction in the Install guide #1

Closed rea987 closed 5 years ago

rea987 commented 5 years ago

Greetings,

Recent versions of Mint (and perhaps Ubuntu) use ~/.steam instead of ~/.local/share/Steam for Steam client installations. Therefore, following lines should be provided as an option in the Install guide:

https://github.com/popsUlfr/Proton/releases

$ mkdir -p ~/.steam/compatibilitytools.d $ cd ~/.steam/compatibilitytools.d

popsUlfr commented 5 years ago

Ok, thanks for the info. I added this information to the release.

rea987 commented 5 years ago

It looks like Steam is installed to different directories depending on installation method. On my usual system, I installed Steam via Mint 19 repo package which ended up installing on ~/.steam. However, to test Gallium Nine, I installed Mint 19.1 on an AMD laptop and installed Steam via Steam's own .deb installer which installed Steam on ~/.local/share/Steam. I guess it would be better to offer both directories to users just to be safe.

popsUlfr commented 5 years ago

I making myself a note here to have a look at how proton's make install manages to detect the right path.

It's set by default to STEAM_DIR := $(HOME)/.steam/root

Could you confirm that

$ mkdir -p ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d
$ cd ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d
$ tar xf Proton_3.16-6_Gallium_Nine_Extras_0.1.1.tar.xz

gets the job done for most distro ? root links back to ~/.local/share/Steam for me.