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I want to buy a new notebook in the near future to play games on it. I'm looking forward for the new Steam for Linux client. My question is that where does the Steam install the games, on the home partition, or in the usr folder, or somewhere else? I do not use pre-release (i.e. beta) versions of either Steam or Ubuntu.
NitRoNitRo
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In newer versions of Steam, games seem to be located at:
~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common
Don't know when this changed, but Steam is no longer in
~/.local/share
Ivan ČurdinjakovićIvan Čurdinjaković
The default install location appears to be
~/.local/share/Steam . This is where Valve games are installed by default, which can't be changed using the Steam Libraries system.
The setup of this directory mirrors how Windows Steam is laid out, with the Mateo
SteamApps folder containing both the .gcf files shared across Steam accounts and the individual steam account directories.
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PowerlordPowerlord
Steam
It install in this path:
Oblivion free download full version. Where ${USER} is the name of your ubuntu user.
ThiagoPonteThiagoPonte
~/Steam is only for log files Downloaded data (client updates, etc) seam to go to ~/.steam instead.
If you don't want to pollute your $HOME, you can create a folder somewhere on a partition, give it your own user accounts's ownership and access rights and create some symlinks.
I personally did before launching the Steam Client second time:
After installing and updating the client, all game and Steam client data ended up under /opt/SteamFiles and installing games directly pointed me to my created file system.
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This can easily shared between multiple Linux installations on the same PC.
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As other users have already said, Steam is installed under
~/.local/share/Steam (where the ~/ means /home/<username> ). The games themselves are installed in ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common .
However, when I attempted to find this directory in Wine, for some reason Wine wouldn't show any folder names starting with a '.', so it couldn't find the
.local folder in order to get to the Steam directory. I was able to resolve this by going up in the directory tree to My Computer and then drilling down into the correct drive letter for your Ubuntu file system, which for me was Z: . Note that C: is an internally used drive letter in Wine for compatibility with Windows applications and won't show your Ubuntu files. From there you have to find your /home directory and follow the folders down to your Steam directory, i.e. Z:/home/<username>/.local/share/Steam .
Alium BrittAlium Britt
It actually depends how you Installed Steam.(at least on 16.04LTS)
Via the steam.deb on steampowered.com the location ist ~/.local/share/Steam
Via ubuntu's own multiverse repository the location is ~/.steam
The second install method is the recommended one.http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/install-steam-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts
user192576user192576
In my case I had a different place.
The best way to know (at least for me) is to go to the root and find for Steam or steam.
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I have purchased a game on Steam and can not find out the details of the file or purchase.How does one find their CD Key from a game purchased in Steam?
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Most Steam games don't have any CD keys. Everything is attached to your account and can be downloaded and run inside the client, and most games require no extra verification - the Steam client itself is sufficient.
For the games that do have CD keys, right-click the game in your library and click View CD key.
This will show a dialog with your CD keys for the product (actual keys redacted here):
Steam will also show a reminder on the Steam Overlay when you launch the game, allowing you to access the keys from within the game. Here, you can also tell Steam to not show this reminder again (in case you already entered the key inside the game, or if the game doesn't actually use the key).
Michael MadsenMichael Madsen
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If a game requires a CD key, you can right-click the game in your games list and select 'View CD key'.
Not all games have this option. If, for some reason, you need the CD key of a game which does not have this option, I suggest contacting Steam Support about the issue.
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Eric FinnEric Finn
In the eve of 2019 I couldn't find this setting in the context menus for some reason, but can see it currently present under Links category of a game:
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