odd steam install location?

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:18 am

I am trying to track down a crash in Steam (Steam itself, not a game
through it). In following appdb instructions for Steam I realized that
it was installed in
/home/tparker/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/drive_c/Program
Files/Steam/steam.exe and not in :~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files> where I
had expected it, although that second directory does have a
SteamInstall.msi sitting in it but no Steam folder.

Is this normal for Steam or could it be part of my problem?

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:27 am

tparker wrote:I am trying to track down a crash in Steam (Steam itself, not a game
through it). In following appdb instructions for Steam I realized that
it was installed in
/home/tparker/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/drive_c/Program
Files/Steam/steam.exe and not in :~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files> where I
had expected it, although that second directory does have a
SteamInstall.msi sitting in it but no Steam folder.

Is this normal for Steam or could it be part of my problem?

~/.local/share/wineprefixes is where winetricks installs games and apps.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:21 pm

On 09/19/2011 12:27 PM, dimesio wrote:

~/.local/share/wineprefixes is where winetricks installs games and apps.

thank you, I hadn't realized it used a different location than regular
(self) installs.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:24 pm

On 09/19/2011 12:46 PM, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

install the winetricks line: WINEPREFIX=~/.wineSteam sh winetricks
corefonts allfonts tahoma

I had already done that per the appdb, but thanks.

But anytime steam has crashed on me, the wineprefix went bad from
something.

That does appear to be the case, reran the Steam install through
winetricks (code: 'winetricks steam' in case anyone searches this later
and needs it) and that seems to have fixed the crash. thanks!