adobeair - how to install it?

matiit · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 506

How to install the newest version of adobeair for linux?
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
Please help

mjf55 · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 372

Silly question. Did you follow the instructions that are posted on that page you linked to? If so, what happened?
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matiit · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 506

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:14 am Post subject:

If it's an rpm package, you can convert it to a tarball using rmp2targz, then uncompress it and see what's inside. It should be a matter of putting each file where it belongs.

matiit · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 506

The problem is:
that is bin...

mjf55 · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 372

how far do you get?? Here is what I did.

chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

after a couple seconds, the EULA popped up and then I canceled.
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matiit · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 506

ehh... and then (if you accept) there is a error that i haven't rpm based or deb based distro...

jkomar · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject:

Down at the bottom of the download page, you can get the Air SDK which is a .tbz2.

There are notes on how to install Air for non-rpm distros via the SDK at this link:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=677&threadid=1349878&enterthread=y

I'm going to give it a shot. I'll post back here when I've tried it.

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jkomar · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

I got it working on x86 using the instructions found at the link in my previous post. The only thing I changed was moving things to /opt as I really don't like apps in my home directory.

I haven't tried it on amd64 yet, but from some reading I've done, I'm thinking it's not going to work until Adobe comes out with a 64 bit version. I guess I'll have to try it and see.

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jkomar · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject:

I put an article up on my blog with an install walk-through for Adobe AIR on Gentoo if anyone's interested.

http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux

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radagast · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject:

amd64
AIR working fine for me, for a couple of months now.
and thanks for the nice howto, jkomar

(but that nico guy has just updated the google analytics suite and i can't get it to run??)

KarlH420 · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 45

There is an open bug on this:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251475

aplesch · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 70

I followed the approach here to install AIR on my 64bit system. I found that on KDE

a 32bit libkwalletclient.so.1

is required for AIR, eg. for the adobe media player app. All other required 32bit libs were installed on my system from emul packages.

After I provided from a .deb kde package, everything seems to work quite well.

See here for a more complete summary:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=75&catid=697&threadid=1413594&enterthread=y
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Havin_it · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately this method doesn't seem to provide the needed integration with the browser, which is needed for (e.g.) the new AIR-based BBC iPlayer download platform.

I tried both the SDK approach, and copying all the files I could find from an Ubuntu install, but no joy. I hope either (a) Adobe expand support to other Linux distros or (b) someone manages to put together a reliable hacked installer.

mizery de aria · Guru Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 309

I emerged air-sdk-1.5 from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251475 however it doesn't seem to integrate with Firefox 3.0.x since http://alertthingy.com claims that Adobe Air isn't installed yet. Any ideas?
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jkhanlar · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

I also have air-sdk-1.5 emerged.

lenk · Apprentice Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

Installed air-sdk from the bugreport. air-run Tweetdeck 0.25b runs the app, but the buttons in the app does not respond to anything.
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krisse · Guru Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 325 Location: Sweden

Apart from the bug report mentioned above (251475), there also seems to be another, newer one: 26755. Haven't tried either ebuild though, so couldn't say how the latter fares if compared to the former.

Havin_it · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:09 am Post subject:

Ì hope one of them bears some fruit, but I think browser integration is still going to be tricky.

In the meantime, here's another thought for whatever it's worth. The blurb on the BBC site says AIR installs either an RPM or a DEB and so requires a distro that supports one of these. Well, we have rpm and dpkg in portage; is there not some way we can use them to manage the install?