mkdir /home/$(whoami)/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
worked great, thanks!
Fixed:
$ mkdir /home/$(whoami)/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 19.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
before the ugh....
$ steam
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
find: ‘/home/$(whoami)/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or directory
ugh this issue still exists years later ,,
thanks for reminding me what yet another quick fix for installing steam was
I guess at least their bug that wiped your entire home folder is gone
Nothing extracted yet.
Install steam on ubuntu 19.04 from /usr/bin/gnome-software
After first launch prompts to update, do it, then it will close.
When you try to reopen it says:
Fixed with:
Now launching steam works properly: