Where are the installed bits in Linux Mint please?

[Commander_Chutney]

I need to completely uninstall Steam and start again; but the uninstallers on Mint don't seem to be doing it. Does anyone have a list of what's installed where so I can nuke the lot manually? Thanks.

[Cpt_Kopfschmerz]

dpkg -L steam
-L, --listfiles package-name...
List files installed to your system from package-name.

man dpkg

[Kiba Snowpaw]

You can use Ubuntu/mint Software Center to uninstall or Open Terminal and execute the following command:

 sudo apt autoremove steam

Purge Steam Perfectly with Configuration files with the following:

 sudo apt purge steam

Never forget to delete its directory located at home folder:

 rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam && rm -rf ~/.steam

i don't know how it is on mint, but there is a hidden folder on ubuntu under the home folder. called .Steam where all the steam files are; just delete that one.

[Commander_Chutney]

Thanks - I learned a couple of commands, at least. Did that, and the list doesn't seem complete. It doesn't seem to cover proton or the wine stuff and all the side-bits that steam loads.

Complete story; I loaded egg-roll proton so I could play Borderlands 3 without the video glitch. That worked, but then I tried to play another game (GTA) and it didn't work. "It must be the egg-roll thing", I thought to myself, so tried switching back to regular proton and now no games at all work, no matter which proton I use and which games I reload.

I did try uninstalling and reinstalling steam (and the games) but nothing. So my aim is to try and get rid of steam and everything it loads as if it had never been, so I can start afresh. Ideally without breaking anything else.

EDIT: Thanks Kiba Snowpaw - you snuck in while I was typing a reply to Cpt_Kopfschmerz. Purge sounds promising. I know about the .steam directory, thanks.

[Kiba Snowpaw]

i don't know if this is the problem, but if you have Delete proton at one point from steam, then steam still thinks you have it and don't gonna reinstall it i don't know if there is a way to force it to do so but last time it happens to me i just completely delete steam and reinstall it and make it download proton again.

i don't know anything about egg-roll proton since i always use a mix of wine, Vulkan, or steam's proton with a client like https://lutris.net/ i don't own BL3 on steam i don't know about the video. Only own BL-tps and BL2.

[Commander_Chutney]

I was switching between proton versions from within steam; but something went horribly wrong anyway.

I have tangled with Lutris before, but had mixed results with it, so was trying to do everything through steam and proton only this time round. Probably my vast Linux incompetence.

BL3 uses integrated video that doesn't seem to play well with Linux. That would be fine, and you could just ignore it, except that watching the video is some of the main story mission checkpoints. Egg-roll is a proton version that fixes that, albeit a bit crustily. And is allergic to all the other protons, it would seem.

[Marlock]

I think you're not the first to report that using Proton GE caused other proton versions to break...

...but can't seem to find the earlier report and can't remember the solution in that case (if any besides a full reinstall)... sorry I can't be of more help but maybe you have better luck finding it

[Enigmatic]

Yeah, that happened to me with protontricks. Switching steam to a different version broke a lot of games I needed proton tricks for. No other way around than re-installing i found besides re doing all the prefixes of which I have no clue about.