Can not get steam to uninstall out of Ubuntu 18.04

[Win2000Fan]

Want to install steam into another Linux hard drive but can not get steam to remove out of the one it's in now. I press remove in the Linux software page and the activity spinner thing spins and when it's done the remove button comes back on as if nothing happened. Yes I did remove all my games first. Any ideas? Thank you.

[meheezen]

sudo apt-get purge steam?
also, make sure you have rw permissions for ~/.steam and ~/.local/share/Steam
describing how you got Steam installed in the first place would also help

[Cat on Linux]

purge it and then manually remove .steam folder if it stuck for any reason (move your games form that folder prior to folder removal). that should be it.
out of curiosity, why do you need to install it to another hdd? you can just create symlink for steam folder and move it to any destination you want, how do you plan to install it to different place?

[x_wing]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

purge it and then manually remove .steam folder if it stuck for any reason (move your games form that folder prior to folder removal). that should be it.
out of curiosity, why do you need to install it to another hdd? you can just create symlink for steam folder and move it to any destination you want, how do you plan to install it to different place?

He can also clone the drive, resize (if necessary) and patch grub.

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by x_wing:

He can also clone the drive, resize (if necessary) and patch grub.

why? :) to have fun?

[Win2000Fan]

I use Windows 7 64 bit so I can play Skyrim SE.

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

purge it and then manually remove .steam folder if it stuck for any reason (move your games form that folder prior to folder removal). that should be it.
out of curiosity, why do you need to install it to another hdd? you can just create symlink for steam folder and move it to any destination you want, how do you plan to install it to different place?

I use Windows 7 64 bit to play Skyrim SE. I have over 680 hours in that game, so anything else is not an option, Anyway, that hard Drive has died so I am reformating another 2 TB HD in Ext4 so I can transfer very important NTFS files into the new reformated 2TB hard drive. Then I am going to brake up a 3 TB hard drive into NTFS so I can reformat it into 2 hard draves so I can install Windows 64 bit into said reformated 3 TB hard drive. Don't worry I saved all my steam game files into a special save folder. Wew, I bet your sorry you asked.

I have spent several weeks (I am serious) trying to figure out how to play Skyrim SE 64 bit in Linux and no joy. I know the older 32 bit Skyrim would work but why go backwards? So I am stuck with Windows till either Wine or something/someone figures a way around the direct X issue for newer 64 bit Windows games in Linux.

[Cat on Linux]

well it definitely clears thing up. you can't use symlinks then. I play old Skyrim because it works more or less stable under wine, had option to buy SE but decided to go with older one for the sake of compatibility.

[Bunnyhop]

Originally posted by shellback84:

I use Windows 7 64 bit so I can play Skyrim SE.

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

purge it and then manually remove .steam folder if it stuck for any reason (move your games form that folder prior to folder removal). that should be it.
out of curiosity, why do you need to install it to another hdd? you can just create symlink for steam folder and move it to any destination you want, how do you plan to install it to different place?

I use Windows 7 64 bit to play Skyrim SE. I have over 680 hours in that game, so anything else is not an option, Anyway, that hard Drive has died so I am reformating another 2 TB HD in Ext4 so I can transfer very important NTFS files into the new reformated 2TB hard drive. Then I am going to brake up a 3 TB hard drive into NTFS so I can reformat it into 2 hard draves so I can install Windows 64 bit into said reformated 3 TB hard drive. Don't worry I saved all my steam game files into a special save folder. Wew, I bet your sorry you asked.

I have spent several weeks (I am serious) trying to figure out how to play Skyrim SE 64 bit in Linux and no joy. I know the older 32 bit Skyrim would work but why go backwards? So I am stuck with Windows till either Wine or something/someone figures a way around the direct X issue for newer 64 bit Windows games in Linux.

I play Skyrim VR in Linux with Proton. SE should work just fine.
In fact if it's just SE and not VR, you should be fine running a custom wine install outside steam (or running steam through wine, rather), as you don't have to worry about the openvr bridge which Proton gets working. (similar to what wineopenvr wrapper was building towards)

If you're running into issues with mods, I'm assuming it's SKSE64 in which case you'd need a wine build with this patch[github.com]. If you want a straight forward guide towards it all (though I'm sure there are pre-built wine binaries for it, and this guide does not cover the nightmare of the various dependencies you'd need), here you go.

You don't even need Proton for this, since no openvr/steamvr bridge required.
There'll be some sound issues, but this is doable. (also, sound issues are temporary, with new implementation of xaudio2/faudio they'll probably all vanish)

I don't know if I'm just pasting you links you've already read or what, but Skyrim SE on Linux is a thing and should not be an unsurmountable problem.
Hopefully Proton will get the patches and updates it needs for none of this to even be a thing that you'd have to do user-side, but know that it is possible.