„Cannot run as root user“ Error

Troubleshooting
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I installed Steam on my Raspi but now, if I try to run it, I get an Error witch says „Cannot run as root user“. If i am using another User, I get

bin_steam.sh[1797]: Setting up Steam content in /root/.local/share/Steam
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/root’: Permission denied

Anyone ideas what i could try to fix?

Required Information

  • DietPi version | G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=0
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=2
    G_GITBRANCH=‘master’
    G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’
  • Distro version | bookworm 0
  • Kernel version | Linux DietPi 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
  • Architecture | arm64
  • SBC model | rpi4b

Additional Information (if applicable)

  • Software title | Steam
  • Software was installed newly.
2

How did you install it?
You can try to modify the bin_steam.sh script to change the path to something the non-root user can write to.

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I first tried installing from the default repo, but that wouldn’t work.
So I tried Installing it via importing the Steam repository:

curl -s http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/stable/steam.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg > /dev/null

echo deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] Steam for Linux - launcher stable steam | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install \steam-launcher

I will try to modify the bin_steam.sh.
Thank you for the suggestion.

Edit: now I get different issues with Steam. It’s not worth the hustle for me. But still thank you for helping. :slight_smile:

4

I wondered that Steam is now available on ARM, but it is not. This is the problem here.

5

At least from our side we have it available on AMRv7 (32bit) only, software ID 156. However, it would require Box86 on ARM based systems.

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