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Replace .local/share/Steam/appcache/appinfo.vdf with this one to make Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - Deluxe work on Linux
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Hi some other people are having issues with other versions of assassins screen (same issue)

what were the steps you went through to create these pared down vdf files?

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pdfrod commented Mar 22, 2022

Hi there @smintman!

I don't remember the exact steps to be honest. I know tried to write some code that would parse the file appinfo.vdf and hide the Mac DLC (repo here), but I think that didn't work out in the end because I didn't know how to calculate some checksums. Without the correct checksums, Steam will simply throw away the file and create a new one from scratch.

What I think I tried instead was to copy the appinfo.vdf file to a Windows box, open it with SteamEdit, hide the Mac DLC, save and copy back to Linux. It's not great having to log in to Windows but it seems that there's now a way to do this in Linux using Steam Metadata Editor. This recent discussion on Steam Metadata Editor seems quite relevant: tralph3/Steam-Metadata-Editor#14

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