I need help!!!

[Racerx562]

I play MX Simulator on my Steamdeck and I accidentally deleted it trying to install a snapshot and I’m trying to get the game back but I’m struggling and forgot how to do it. I click the Linux link from the BMT email to download it but I can’t extract it and when I do in other places it has 0 mb instead of 294 mb. All I want to do is get to where I have the MX with the play button on it so when I click it I can play the game.

[Pumaxcs]

I'll share a quick and general for Linux/Deck and tar.gz files. I have not done this on mine so the process may differ and hopefully JLV can correct me if needed. Just going from what I know and what you shared. I'm terribly sorry if this feels like talking down to you but a "How to" install on Steam Deck could be a good search reference to be able to point back to so I'll cover all I can think of.

Open Terminal or Konsole (?Decks version I think?) and find your file. Most likely in Desktop or Downloads and then using ls to confirm you see the file listed in the directory. "cd" tells change directory to look at files in a certain location, "ls" looks and scans for folder and file names and reports back what it can see.

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cd /home/*user/Desktop
ls
**
"mxsimulator-1_13-linux-x86-update.tar.gz"

If you don't know your Decks username go one step at a time.

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cd /home
ls
**
"/user"

Once we have found the directory with the tar.gz in it we can tell it to extract. The tags are "x" to extract, "z" to decompress, "v" verbose so it tells us what its doing, "f" target file name. Make sure the "f" tag is last and immediately followed by the file name otherwise it gets confused.

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tar -xzvf mxsimulator-1_13-linux-x86-update.tar.gz

Or to have it extract to a specific folder

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tar -xzvf mxsimulator-1_13-linux-x86-update.tar.gz -c /specific/folder/destination

I've not done this on my deck or played MXS on Linux so I'm afraid I can't go any farther but it sounds like you had it at one point and just needed the extract. Hopefully this helps.

[jlv]

He had emailed me and I believe the problem was the KDE file manager for some reason opens a shell script as a text file instead of executing it when you double click it. You have to right click and choose "run" instead.

[Pumaxcs]

Fucking LOL and here I wrote all that out