Usage steam įor the available command-line options see the Command Line Options article on the Valve Developer Wiki. KeyValues format and its installdir property In order for Steam to recognize a game it needs to have anĪppmanifest_ AppId.acf file in LIBRARY/steamapps/. ~/.steam/root but you can also have multiple library folders ( Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders). Steam installs games into a directory under LIBRARY/steamapps/common/. This article uses the ~/.steam/root symlink to refer to the install location.Įvery Steam application has a unique AppID, which you can find out by looking at its Steam Store page path. If Steam cannot find it, it will prompt you to reinstall it or select the new location. The default Steam install location is ~/.local/share/Steam.

If that does not work, consider this hack: make the fonts available by directly copying the font files into 's directories, e.g.

First try mounting your local font :įlatpak run -filesystem=~/.local/share/fonts -filesystem=~/.config/fontconfig If you are having problem getting Asian fonts to show in game, it is because does not include it. If you want to add an external library, run the following command to add it:įlatpak override -filesystem=/path/to/directory However, you can freely add directories outside the home directory. Steam installed via Flatpak is not able to access your home directory and overriding this will cause Steam to not run because it is not safe. Also you currently cannot run games via optirun/ primusrun, see Issue#869 for more details. The Flatpak application currently does not support themes. The easiest way to install it for the current user is by using the Flathub repo and flatpak command:įlatpak -user remote-add -if-not-exists flathub įlatpak -user install flathub Steam can also be installed with Flatpak as from Flathub. Install steamcmd AUR for the command-line version of Steam. If using systemd-networkd for network management, install lib32-systemd in order for Steam to be able to connect to its servers.Install wqy-zenhei to add support for Asian languages.An alternative is to use ttf-liberation or fonts provided by Steam instead. Generated en_US.UTF-8 locale, preventing invalid pointer error.

Installed 32-bit version OpenGL graphics driver.

The following requirements must be fulfilled in order to run Steam on Arch Linux:

5.9 Sharing Games With Windows Using Proton / Other Compatibility LayersĮnable the multilib repository and install the steam package.

5.6 Changing the Steam notification position.

5.4 Big Picture Mode without a window manager.

Steam play button does nothing