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Fresh Debian 12 install and Steam having issues managing files? (self.steam)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ohshit604 to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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Good afternoon y'all.

I recently installed Steam on a laptop running a fresh install of Debian 12 & KDE Plasma. I've done this dance numerous times on other hardware however, this time when installing games through Steam they hang at 100% Downloaded & Installed and only complete when i pause them, one occasion two games simply wouldn't install and took me a full day fighting with Steam to finish them and clear the queue.

Steam can't seem to move files between drives (note: one drive is an SSD and the other is an HDD) or uninstall files and i assumed this was a permissions issue at first however, comparing the directory permissions from the laptop to my desktop (also running Debian 12 & KDE Plasma) i see nothing out of the ordinary.

Any suggestions are appreciated - Some things I've already tried.

Purged steam from the system (including ~/.steam)
Cleared 'Download Cache' in Steam settings
chown & chmod (777) the common directories (~/.steam/steamapps/common)
Waited numerous hours assuming the HDD was ridiculously slow - moving/deleting files in the CLi shell works without issue!
Tried different download regions/countries

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[–] Laavu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

First, make sure you are using EXT4 file system on your drive, and it's on /etc/fstab. Then you could see if mounting your HDD to your main steam library location on your home dir fixes the issue.

It's always a good idea to check steam logs to get a better idea what could be going on.

The issue tracker is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues

If you filter issues with keywords "external library", you have 68 open issues to compare to yours. Eg. one is a shader pre-cache issue, disabling shader pre-cache may help. In another one people report needing to run a console command to mount the external library.

Hope this helps.