Fedora 41 steam disappeared

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Hi, my steam app is missing suddenly.
I haven’t deinstalled it (afaik) but it isn’t anymore in my games menu and the steam games I have played over the last several months are not displayed too?
Can someone tell me what is going here and how can I get it back ?

Update: I started steam with the shell script “steam.sh” in /home/…/steam/steam and it started normally - but still no menu entries for it or my games (although the games are shown in the library of the steam gui client).

Here some infos about my system:

=== fpaste 0.5.0.0 System Information ===
* OS Release (cat /etc/*-release | uniq):
     Fedora release 41 (Forty One)
     NAME="Fedora Linux"
     VERSION="41 (Cinnamon)"
     RELEASE_TYPE=stable
     ID=fedora
     VERSION_ID=41
     VERSION_CODENAME=""
     PLATFORM_ID="platform:f41"
     PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 41 (Cinnamon)"
     ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
     LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
     CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41"
     DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
     HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
     DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f41/system-administrators-guide/"
     SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
     BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
     REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
     REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=41
     REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
     REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=41
     SUPPORT_END=2025-12-15
     VARIANT="Cinnamon"
     VARIANT_ID=cinnamon
     Fedora release 41 (Forty One)
...     
* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
     runlevel (to lvl 5)   6.13.7-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 17:15   still running
     reboot   system boot  6.13.7-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 17:15   still running
     runlevel (to lvl 5)   6.13.7-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 17:06 - 17:15  (00:08)
     reboot   system boot  6.13.7-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 17:06 - 17:15  (00:08)
     runlevel (to lvl 5)   6.13.6-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 12:01 - 14:00  (01:59)
     reboot   system boot  6.13.6-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 12:01 - 14:00  (01:59)
     runlevel (to lvl 5)   6.13.6-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 09:03 - 10:45  (01:42)
     reboot   system boot  6.13.6-200.fc41. Thu Mar 20 09:03 - 10:45  (01:42)
     runlevel (to lvl 5)   6.13.6-200.fc41. Wed Mar 19 17:25 - 18:29  (01:04)
     reboot   system boot  6.13.6-200.fc41. Wed Mar 19 17:25 - 18:29  (01:04)
     
     wtmp begins Tue Mar  4 07:34:09 2025
     
* DNF Repositories (dnf repolist):
     repo id                                        repo name
     brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_ created by dnf config-manager from https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
     fedora                                         Fedora 41 - x86_64
     fedora-cisco-openh264                          Fedora 41 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
     rpmfusion-free                                 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free
     rpmfusion-free-updates                         RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates
     rpmfusion-nonfree                              RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree
     rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                      RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates
     updates                                        Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Updates
     vscode                                         packages.microsoft.com
     WineHQ                                         WineHQ packages
     
* DNF Extras (without results: "dnf -C list extras"):
     N/A

* Last 20 packages installed (rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature --last | head -20):
     kernel-devel-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64           Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:45 CET
     python3-perf-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64           Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:36 CET
     libavcodec-freeworld-7.1.1-3.fc41.x86_64      Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:36 CET
     tigervnc-server-minimal-1.15.0-2.fc41.x86_64  Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     python3-botocore-1.37.14-1.fc41.noarch        Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     python3-boto3-1.37.14-1.fc41.noarch           Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     kernel-tools-libs-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64      Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     kernel-tools-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64           Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     kernel-modules-extra-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64   Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     kernel-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64                 Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:32 CET
     tigervnc-license-1.15.0-2.fc41.noarch         Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:30 CET
     kernel-modules-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64         Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:26 CET
     kernel-core-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64            Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:25 CET
     kernel-modules-core-6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64    Do 20 Mär 2025 12:17:24 CET
     steam-devices-1.0.0.100^git20240522.0.e2971e4-2.fc41.noarch Di 18 Mär 2025 10:03:26 CET
     qemu-guest-agent-9.1.3-2.fc41.x86_64          Di 18 Mär 2025 10:03:26 CET
     python3-libxml2-2.12.10-1.fc41.x86_64         Di 18 Mär 2025 10:03:26 CET
     python3-argcomplete-3.6.0-1.fc41.noarch       Di 18 Mär 2025 10:03:26 CET
     libxml2-2.12.10-1.fc41.x86_64                 Di 18 Mär 2025 10:03:26 CET
     libxml2-2.12.10-1.fc41.i686                   Di 18 Mär 2025 10:03:26 CET
2

Can you start steam from the terminal?

steam
3

can’t start it that way, but I can start it with the shell script “steam.sh” in .steam/steam

4

What is the output of ls /usr/bin/steam, ls /usr/lib/steam/bin_steam.sh, and cat /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop?

5 
ls /usr/lib/steam
ls: Zugriff auf '/usr/lib/steam' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
(english: ...file or directory not found)

same for:  
ls /usr/lib/steam/bin_steam.sh
and
cat /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
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Thank you for your help. I’ll have to put this on hold as I’m going away for a week in a few hours. What I would be interested in though is if there is a way to determine when a package or app was uninstalled and by whom or with what command. The disappearance of the Steam app does worry me a bit.
I have checked the transaction log for Dnfdragora (the cinnamon package manager) and haven’t found any steam related entry for the last few months except one entry regarding steamdevices.

7

for future reference, you can make your terminal speak English by using LANG=C <command>

8

Thx,
dapeta@fedora:~$ LANG=C
dapeta@fedora:~$ ls /usr/lib/steam
ls: cannot access ‘/usr/lib/steam’: No such file or directory

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Is steam installed?

rpm -ql steam
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dapeta@fedora:~$ rpm -ql steam
package steam is not installed

installation time of steam related packages
dapeta@fedora:~$ rpm -qa -last | tac | grep steam
steam-devices-1.0.0.100^git20240522.0.e2971e4-2.fc41.noarch Tue Mar 18 10:03:26 2025
I installed steam with fedora 40, the list got probably reset, when I updated from fedora 40 to 41.