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I first installed Steam using POL in the standard location, "$HOME/.PlayOnLinux". However, I only had 2GiB free on my home partition, so I mv'ed it to my media partition and left a symlink like so
mv .PlayOnLinux /media/files
ln -s /media/files/.PlayOnLinux ~/.PlayOnLinux
I then did a "ls -l ~/.PlayOnLinux" to ensure sane permissions. When I tried to launch Steam from POL, it crashed. This did not happen before.

I rm-ed the whole directory and started over, keeping the same link-directory structure as listed above. This time Steam won't even install. POL complains that it can't find the Steam.exe binary.

Why doesn't it work when I move the directory and leave a symbolic link?

Hi,

It does not work because POL is using find command, which gives him the wrong path.

You might try to edit playonlinux/lib/Variables.py to change your home path

Or better yet, perhaps the use of the find command should simply have the -L option to avoid the issue altogether.

From what I can gather, the workaround should be this
-- homedir = os.environ["HOME"]
++ homedir = "/media/files"

But I tried this and got the same error. What else do I need to change?

Edited by dbbolton

I also did this
grep -in "find" /usr/share/playonlinux/*
and it gave no relevant results. Where is the find call coming from?

lib/scripts.lib mainly (I think)

Hi,

I had the same problem of free space, and saw the bug #609.
( http://www.playonlinux.com/fr/issue-609.html )

As mentioned in the bug report, for me, the problem was not related to PlayOnLinux but related to the noexec option of the target partition (/media/files in your case).

You can see that you are in the same case by looking into the file /proc/mounts (more precise than the output of the 'mount' command or '/etc/mtab' on my Xubuntu 11.10 )

I hope this could help you.

Edited by draco31.fr