Fedora Steamcmd folder woes

[Psittac]

Had a buddy over tonight who wanted to play Palworld and I figured heck yeah! I'll throw a server up on my Linux VM.  Well, I installed twice on steam cmd and the third time it said it was already installed.  But the folder just didn't exist. 95%+ of this was done command line.  I was able to search for the folder in the gui folder browser, copy the location and open it in command line but only once.  I was able to cd to the directory most of the way there but the last two folders didn't exist.  This is with LS showing nothing in the folder, I could still cd to a folder that technically wasn't there.  I even tried sudo cd and sudo ls, nothing.  I closed everything and tried again, that or restarted, and it didn't work again.   Sometimes it would show up in the gui folder browser sometimes it wouldn't.

 

I don't have a lot of time under my belt with Linux, but I have an aptitude for googling a guide but simply getting to the folder wasn't something I could google. It was supposed to be there, and from a few points of reference it was there some of the time.

 

Sorry if I'm not giving proper insight to the crazyness.....

[xAcid9]

6 hours ago, Psittac said:

Had a buddy over tonight who wanted to play Palworld and I figured heck yeah! I'll throw a server up on my Linux VM.  Well, I installed twice on steam cmd and the third time it said it was already installed.  But the folder just didn't exist. 95%+ of this was done command line.  I was able to search for the folder in the gui folder browser, copy the location and open it in command line but only once.  I was able to cd to the directory most of the way there but the last two folders didn't exist.  This is with LS showing nothing in the folder, I could still cd to a folder that technically wasn't there.  I even tried sudo cd and sudo ls, nothing.  I closed everything and tried again, that or restarted, and it didn't work again.   Sometimes it would show up in the gui folder browser sometimes it wouldn't.

 

I don't have a lot of time under my belt with Linux, but I have an aptitude for googling a guide but simply getting to the folder wasn't something I could google. It was supposed to be there, and from a few points of reference it was there some of the time.

 

Sorry if I'm not giving proper insight to the crazyness.....

Can you share all the cmds you used and their error ouput?

[spacepickle]

Does this work? Should show hidden folders. I dunno how this would fix you being able to navigate to it in the GUI but not in the CLI, but might be worth trying

ls -a

 

[Psittac]

On 2/4/2026 at 5:34 AM, xAcid9 said:

Can you share all the cmds you used and their error ouput?

no error output's other than that folder doesn't exist.  I'm not all that experienced with Linux but I find this really odd.  All I used was cd .. to go to root then cd to go to each folder. And LS, nothing but simple commands.

 

6 hours ago, spacepickle said:

Does this work? Should show hidden folders. I dunno how this would fix you being able to navigate to it in the GUI but not in the CLI, but might be worth trying

ls -a

 

I'll give that a try next time I'm on that VM, I didn't uninstall anything.