• Zanshi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Huh, did it really do that? I remember installing steam for Linux as soon as beta was available but never had this happen to me

    • average650@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It explains in the GitHub link.

      There was a line of code:rm -rf “$STEAMROOT/”*

      If you remove the definition of $STEAMROOT, then it appears to be interpreted as rm -rf /