Error when trying to use --check-native

When trying to run ProtonDB-Tag with --check-native argument, I get the following error

Steam found at: /home/beergeekgamer/.local/share/Steam/userdata
Found user 0: 19755583   BeerGeekGamer
Only one user found.
Selected: /home/beergeekgamer/.local/share/Steam/userdata/19755583/7/remote/sharedconfig.vdf
Steam native cache not found.
Creating Steam native cache...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ProtonDB-Tags", line 299, in <module>
    main(ARGUMENTS)
  File "ProtonDB-Tags", line 230, in main
    if check_native and is_native(app_id):
  File "ProtonDB-Tags", line 53, in is_native
    with open(cache_path, 'w') as cache_file:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './steamNativeCache.json'

[ShayBox]

Ah, well that would be the problem, system packages are always installed into a system binary folder users have no access writing to, and non binary files shouldn’t go, so the script should be accessing a local user folder, the script should be following the XDG spec in this case, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/protondb-tags/<cache file(s)> with $HOME/.cache/protondb-tags/<cache file(s)> as a fallback if the env doesn’t exist.

EDIT: I don’t know python well enough, but somewhere around here, check if the platform is linux, and if so instead of ./steamNativeCache.json check if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is an env, and if it is, use $XDG_CACHE_HOME/protondb-tags/steamNativeCache.json and if it’s not use $HOME/.cache/protondb-tags/steamNativeCache.json

This would be the way to fix it on linux, I can’t speak for how to handle it on mac, usually you put this stuff in appdata on windows in roaming or local

[CorruptComputer]

@ShayBox steamNativeCache.json is created by the script. The file is in the same directory that the script is in. Depending on where the AUR build script clones the script to this may be somewhere that unprivileged users do not have access.