Steam on Mageia 3. Store freezes fix

[bartos]

I found after i installed steam on Mageia 3 through the repo, that the store would freeze when looking for games to buy.
Figured out it was flash.
Here is a quick fix https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1493-GHZB-7612
it is the same on 32 bit even though this page is for 64 bit.

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The workaround is to provide the 32-bit version of the Flash plugin to the Steam client. The following procedure details the steps:
Close Steam
Download the install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz package from the Adobe site
Create a new directory (called plugins) in ~/.steam/bin
Extract flashlibplayer.so from the downloaded package into the new plugins directory
Restart Steam

Have fun

[pete910]

kinda of weird steam with flash, everytime i try to use flash with steam be it system install or method posted above, it just crashes all together

I wouldn't mind but at first it did work when in early beta stage.

Its time they went HTML5 or whatever, never have liked flash but that's personal preference.


Pete.

[isadora]

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[mechatotoro]

Yes, the same happened to me (Steam engine crashing when looking for games) until yesterday.
I did nothing in particular: only updated Mageia 3 64 bits and then ran the Steam engine, which opened a Konsole asking me for a sudo password (something I don't use). So, I closed the terminal and the engine loaded anyway, looking for updates. After a while, the Steam updating process completed and, when I logged in, it worked perfectly. I even bought a cheap game to test it and it worked as a charm.

Interestingly, every time that I clic to open Steam on my desktop, Konsole opens asking me for some dependencies and my sudo password. Again, I simply ignore that and close the terminal; the engine loads without a problem. This does not happen on my laptop.

However, the engine works on both machines.

[pete910]

Yes, the same happened to me (Steam engine crashing when looking for games) until yesterday.
I did nothing in particular: only updated Mageia 3 64 bits and then ran the Steam engine, which opened a Konsole asking me for a sudo password (something I don't use). So, I closed the terminal and the engine loaded anyway, looking for updates. After a while, the Steam updating process completed and, when I logged in, it worked perfectly. I even bought a cheap game to test it and it worked as a charm.

Interestingly, every time that I clic to open Steam on my desktop, Konsole opens asking me for some dependencies and my sudo password. Again, I simply ignore that and close the terminal; the engine loads without a problem. This does not happen on my laptop.

However, the engine works on both machines.

yes, valve fixed the issue a good few updates ago, Down side is like you said, its wanting sudo at every start so to install some packages,

They need to do a distro agnostic version, not everybody uses *buntu/debian nor apt-get .

Dont get me started on sudo.... well the way *buntu's have used it

One thing's for certain though, steam for *nix is not doing my wallet any favours ...

Pete.