How to install adobe flash player for embedded Steam browser (Garry's Mod Cinema gamemode)

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This is a side-effect of 32bit Steam needing 32bit Flash. If you're on a 64bit install, you're most likely only going to have 64bit copies of Flash installed. You're not the first person to hit this problem though and Valve has already published a guide on how to fix it.

The short of it is you create a plugins directory under your Steam dir (with mkdir -p ~/.steam/bin/plugins, if you like) and then copy the downloaded 32bit libflashplayer.so into it. Restart Steam and you should be good.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Oli almost 2 years

I have tried to do .rpm and .tar.gz and nearly threw my linux out the window. Any other way?
- kenn almost 10 years
  
  did you take a look at this pipelight.net/cms/installation.html
- Wilf almost 10 years
  
  Have you tried: How do I install Adobe Flash player?. Ubuntu needs debian (.deb) packages - rpm packages are for RPM based systems (Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux, RedHat itself, etc)