Since I no longer had an icon for Steam in Gnome, I tried to reinstall Steam via pacman -S steam. That didn’t bring me an icon in the Gnome overview either, but that was because I had created a separate *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications. I removed this and the icon in the overview came back. But now I have the problem that the games I call up via Steam no longer start. For one game, the launcher starts, but then displays the message “Please start Steam first” (Steam is already running, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to start the game). Other games bring up the message that no wine-mono is supposedly installed. But it is installed.
A reinstallation of Steam has not changed anything. What can I do?
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Did you reboot sometime while testing? Chances are that e.g. a new kernel or Nvidia driver version broke the current system and needs a reboot to fix it.
Sounds like you broke your install of steam. Uninstall all versions, rm every location they were installed, and just reinstall.
Isnt there an option to purge it per pacman?
No, because the steam package is only the launcher, which downloads steam to the user’s home directory most times it’s either
~/.local/share/steamor~/.steam/.steam is just symlink so delete both
