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I am trying to install SteamCMD on my Linux machine by using this guide. However, I ran into a problem after I created the user steam and installed SteamCMD. The whole error code is

Command 'steamcmd' is available in '/usr/games/steamcmd'
The command could not be located because '/usr/games' is not included in the PATH environment 
variable

However, I am not that tech savvy with Linux. I am unsure how I am able to give the user steam access to that path, so it can execute the steamcmd application.

Thanks in advance :)

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$PATH is a shell variable that holds the list of directories in which your shell (for example, bash) will search for executables. So if you try to run a command named foo, your shell will look for an executable file named foo in one of those directories. You can see the current value by opening a terminal and running:

echo "$PATH"

Here, the guide you followed installs the executable steamcmd in the directory /usr/games/ and that directory isn't in your user's $PATH variable. So you can either:

  1. Call the executable using the full path to it, instead of just the name:

    /usr/games/steamcmd

  2. Add this directory to your $PATH. To do this, edit the file $HOME/.profile or, if it exists, the file $HOME/.bash_profile. If neither of the two files exist, just create a new, empty $HOME/.profile file. In that file, you add this line:

    export PATH="$PATH:/usr/games"

    Then, save the file, log out and log back in again, and now you can run steamcmd as you want.

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