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!

  1. 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
  2. Modify the permissions of AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
  3. 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
  4. Download the getlibs application
    wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
  5. Install getlibs application
    dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
  6. 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
  7. Install AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
  8. 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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