In this guide I will show you how to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 AMD64.
The current version of Adobe Air at the time of writing this article is 1.5.1. So just a quick scenario, I just wiped out my Windows XP install for Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64. As I was going through my laundry list of must have applications I remembered I absolutely had to have Pandora back. I recently wrote a personal review of it in the Reviews section of my site here.
However before I could reinstall Pandora | One, I had to install Adobe Air for Linux. And the fact that I installed the AMD64 bit version added a few small complications that I was eventually able to get past after some searching around on Google. I figure it took me some time to find the exact stuff that I needed and a single howto might eventually help someone else one day. So here we go!
- Go to http://get.adobe.com/air/ and download the latest version of Adobe Air for Linux.
wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Modify the permissions of AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Install the needed 32bit dependencies. (This part is only necessary for those running AMD64 versions of Ubuntu)
sudo apt-get install -y ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 libc6 libc6-i386 lib32nss-mdns libcanberra-gtk-module
- Download the getlibs application
wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
- Install getlibs application
dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
- Use getlibs-all.deb to install any other necessary 32bit libs
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sudo getlibs ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0 sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1
- Install AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Create a Symbolic Link for libadobecertstore.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32/libadobecertstore.so
At this point you should now be able to Run the Adobe Air Application Installer located in your Applications > Accessories menu. From there you can choose the *.air installation file you wish to install.
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Excellent, worked flawlessly on Lucid Alpha 3.
Thanks a bunch!
This worked great for me on Ubuntu 64 Karmic. The only thing I had to do differently was run most of the commands as sudo. Also, it took me a little while to find the .air file for Tweetdeck. I ultimately found it here: http://support.tweetdeck.com/portal
Thanks for the great post! You saved me hours.
thanks for following up and posting your fix. People usually never come back to post what they found fixed their issues. Thanks again! :)
I too was experiencing this same issue, and here is what seemed to work for me.
FYI – I’m running Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit on a System76 Pangolin Performance (Intel Core2 Duo based.)
The key for me was one particular package referred to in Step 3 of the guide above: lib32nss-mdns
After searching the Synaptic Package Manager for all the 32-bit packages recommended above (and also by Adobe), I found that most of them were already installed. However, lib32nss-mdns was not. After installing it thru Synaptic PM, I was able to launch the AIR Application Installer, install my first AIR application, and it has been running flawlessly since.
Here’s a good link to an Adobe Tech Note regarding AIR on 64 bit Linux, just in case this still doesn’t solve your issue.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408084.html
Hope this helps.
-Ryan Brockman
I’m running Ubuntu 9.10 64 this solution is not working. Air seems to install but it wont install any applications. the application installer will open for a fraction of a second then nothing