Steam error "No such file or directory" for 17.04
By Joseph Russell •
When I run command steam in the terminal it gives me this error.
$ 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/jacob/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or directoryand when I click on the icon it tries to open for a few seconds and then goes away.
2 Answers
Simply open terminal and type:
mkdir /home/$USER/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtimeThis creates the missing directory, it worked for me when I had exactly the same error in 17.04.
2For me got around it with $ rm -rf ~/.steam FWIW :)
This is like the "global nuke option" see the comments below:
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