#issue with steam on mint

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dusk olive
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yw

lavish geode
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im gonna play modded mc on my pc while this chuggs away

dusk olive
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all is good but that absolutely wrecked me why this wouldnt resize.. anyway, carry on.

lavish geode
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alright so now im gonna run the things

dusk olive
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yeh. dont forget to tell ur friend to never remove the SD card or even "unmount" it in the file manager or wherever, unless the computer is OFF.

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as in fully OFF. not sleeping.

lavish geode
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Yea, ill make sure to tell him that

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i gotta do a lesson with him anyways

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"This is called the touchpad..."

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jk he's not THAT stupid

dusk olive
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then if they want, they can buy like a 100 Gig or 64 Gig flash drive, and u can put ventoy on it, and use in the ventoy installer OPTIONS: (gpt ofc, plus in the other partition options leave space at end of drive )

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and leave like 55 GB space if it's a 64 GB drive

lavish geode
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yea

dusk olive
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once ventoy etches out, then u can format that space it left with ext4. and they can use THAT as their timeshift save area (and u can move the couple timeshift saves over to that area from your own 16 GB stick)

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then slap the mint iso on the main exFAT ventoy part, and it's all wrapped up.

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then u can wipe ur own stick clean or do whatever

lavish geode
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i see

dusk olive
lavish geode
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sudo apt install abiword
sudo apt remove libreoffice
sudo apt clean && sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

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just saving this for when i need it

dusk olive
lavish geode
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im currently running
sudo apt update

lavish geode
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i didnt even think about how its kind of like actually physical

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that's fucking crazy to me that we made rocks think for us bruh

dusk olive
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yeh well raw materials plus 100 years of electronice and lithography science.

lavish geode
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its mental though

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like you get what i mean

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so now i assume i can install steam

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ill ping you if software manager doesnt work

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nvm it did praise god

lavish geode
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and should i install it through software manager or flatpak

dusk olive
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not sure. u can research it in depth online where steam flatpak goes. but u will need to direct it to your home folder for the library place.

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S.M. may offer it as FP if it has the flathub badge in the dropdown picker of the sources for the particular app

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seeing as native screwed u last time, try FP one

lavish geode
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how do i do that again

dusk olive
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type steam in S.M. search

lavish geode
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i found it in S.M.

dusk olive
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if it shows flathub, just click install.

lavish geode
dusk olive
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click each one and read the details deeply.

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if neither are FP, then do that command very wrote way up earlier.

lavish geode
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uhhhh

lavish geode
dusk olive
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look for SOURCE in around the details and size

lavish geode
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"Because Steam requires 32-bit libraries, before installing this package it will be necessary to run, as root:

dpkg --add-architecture i386; apt update"

dusk olive
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if the size is gigabytes big, then it extremely likely is flatpak

lavish geode
dusk olive
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see at the top right under the green button. that tells u everything

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check the other one.

lavish geode
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ah

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theyre both system package

dusk olive
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ok switch to plan b

lavish geode
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so then just install via flatpak with the one command?

dusk olive
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yeah u can corroborate what he wrote if it's effective, by google. "install flatpak steam on linux"

lavish geode
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so just the command is

dusk olive
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wait

lavish geode
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flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam

dusk olive
lavish geode
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found steam

dusk olive
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whichever one is right ^^

lavish geode
dusk olive
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u see steam on flathub website

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yeah it gives u a .ref file to d/l

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i think u can double click the reference file n S.M. should do the rest.

lavish geode
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so should i download it off this website

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because it says i can also just use "flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam" on the website

dusk olive
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or learn the command way, shrug make sure to always read stuff n gather what it's about to do before u approve it

lavish geode
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ok

dusk olive
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k then do the command.

lavish geode
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ill install later gotta go eat

dusk olive
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btw on desktop, u can r-click, "create launcher to URL" and put this one address in, and give it a nice icon maybe as a treat and helpful resource.

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. probably go with the flathub command since it sounds more thorough

dusk olive
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SOLVED (Did full OS reinstallation, opting to use alternate disk (large SD card) for home partition for greater storage, and opting for Flatpak Steam on Chromebook with very small internal storage.)

odd kestrel
dusk olive
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