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Asked: 2020-07-23 05:30:50 +0800 CST

Ubuntu Gnome: No such file or directory [remove steam]

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The intention was to remove steam

  1. 1st: sudo apt-get remove steam [if steam was installed via terminal]
  2. 2nd: rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam && rm -rf ~/.steam [remove steam dependencies]

But I installed steam via Lutris once and Ubuntu Software and uninstalled it via Lutris and Ubuntu Software enter image description here enter image description here

However after searching for any steam files in the terminal, I found the following [many files] but I have pointed out to one file for this investigation and analysis.

  1. mlocate steam

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There are endless steam packages and files, including this steam.desktop file

However If you try to navigate to it, you get the following:

cd /usr/share/applications

/usr/share/applications$ ls

I cannot find the steam.desktop file?? enter image description here

I also tried to open a different file and you get the following.

xdg-open /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/steam.png

No such file or directory

Can someone please provide clarity as to why these files are visible but cannot be navigated to or opened.

uninstall dependencies steam directory cleanup

1 Answers

  1. mlocate is a tool that reads its findings from one or more databases created or refreshed by the command:

    sudo updatedb

    Update the database and try again.

    Or use find:

    sudo find / -iname steam

    But this can take a while, when your drive(s) are bigger.

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