Adobe Technologies released the Linux version of Adobe AIR some weeks ago which brings web applications and widgets to your desktop. Installing new applications on a Linux distribution is always a mystery for newbies so here is a guide that teaches you how to install Adobe AIR on Ubuntu.
- Open the Terminal
- Download the file from here using the wget command:
http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin - The name of the file is AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Save the file in the Home folder (Places > Home Folder)
- Run this command:
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin - Now run this command:
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
The normal installer will open, install it. From now whenever you download a .air file, just double click it and it will be installed.
Also take a look at 10 Most Useful Adobe AIR applications reviewed by Sizlopedia.
Sizlopedia is a technology blog created by Saad Hamid, a problogger from Pakistan.
Thanks for the tutorial, worked like charm.
Just one thing at step 6 “sudo ./ adobeair_etc” should be “sudo ./adobeair_etc” just remove the extra space otherwise if you copy and paste it is not gonna work
Thanks
Julius
Thanks for mentioning that out. I fixed it
Big thanks here too. Helped me get Spaz and twhirl running on Ubuntu.
Thanks for this note. Got me started real quick on AIR
I followed the steps above (AMD64, Ubuntu 8.04) and get after the agreement for the license:
Sorry, an error has occurred
An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator.
There is nothing in the log file. What am I going to do next?
bye
R.
Try logging in to Ubuntu as root user and then perform try installing Adobe AIR. Though I am not sure if it will work or not.
Thanks for this writeup–It made it incredibly easy to install. The first few guides I found were so outdated that they recommended installing it under WINE >_>
Having same problem as Ronald. Same Distro and on a turion64 HP DV2000 laptop. Have installed successfully on a Shuttle PC with AMD Sempro processor. Not sure if I have to completely hose this install and reinstall from scratch… I’ve had sound issues as well. Can’t record correctly from a USb mic. But as they say…that is another problem altogether. Did you have any luck Ronald?
The installation on 64-bit linux machines is a little different and requires some 32-bit libraries present on machine. Read this page for more details: http://bit.ly/4pAk
Thx, very very mucho!
I had to close Firefox-2 before the AIR install would work; before that I got the “Installation may not be allowed” error as above.
Hope this helps!
Thanks Rich for the tip. I was getting the same error as Ronald. Once I closed Flock/Firefox, the install went smoothly and completed successfully.
Big thanks.
Won’t work for 64bit Ubuntu. Try this: http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.wynia.org/wordpress/2008/07/14/getting-twhirl-and-other-adobe-air-apps-working-on-ubuntu-64/index.html
I am using Vista and I get the error message:
An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator.
Can these steps help me get thru? Thanks!
I’m new to Linus so I must be ding something wrong.
When I run “chmod +x adobeair_linux_a1_033108.bin”
It tells me “No such file or directory”
I know its there, I can see it on the desktop.
Phil
I was having some challenges, getting that “sorry, an error has occured” message mid-install. I closed Opera and retried the install and it worked fine! Anyone having that error should definitely try shutting down their browser first.
(May want to throw a note at the bottom of the original post with the “shut down browser before finishing install” note.)
@Ronald : As usual you can’t get it on a 64bit system.
Ok, I got it in but now what?
Or do I have to install more from the other Air apps?
Thanks and my Linux IM buds thank you too.
Phil
thanks a lot in the name of all us ubuntu newbies!
Nice…
Adobe Air up and working in Ubuntu 8.04. Its a hell lotta glitchy though!
thanks
this is very helpful for noob like me.
If u hv any problem just make sure the chmod is done in the right folder.
Thanx
but here is the new file
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/linux/adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
Thanks for this tutorial. Installation worked great with adobeair_linux_a1_033108.bin, but failed with the latest bin. A window pops up to tell me the installation failed and I had to ask my administrator about that. Straaaange …
Figured out what it was, Before you install a new version of Adobe AIR on Ubuntu, you must uninstall the old version. Otherwise you’ll get the error message above.
And btw Air is not beta anymore, here’s the official 1.5 version:
http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
the download link should be modified to point to latest released version of AIR 1.5 on linux (http://get.adobe.com/air)
Link modified. Thanks for reporting.
I tried to install AIR using the commands you have shared. But I got an error message reading
“Sorry, an error has occurred.”
Adobe AIR could not be installed because another application is already being installed. Complete the first installation before proceeding with this one.”
Now what might be the reason and what should I do?
Excelent!
thats works
thanks
Thanks a ton!
I’ve found an easier way to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu (I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 – The Hardy Heron).
All I did was to visit the Adobe Air Marketplace [http://tinyurl.com/2ydjqx] and requested to install one of the apps there. When you do this, you’ll be told that Adobe Air is not installed on your machine and then be given a chance to install it.
There’s no need to use the Ubuntu Terminal this way.
I also got the infamous “Could not be installed because an another application is already being installed error”.
For some reason, this error disappeared when I stopped the synaptic package manager (Which I had open to install some other toys..)
(This on Ubuntu 8.10)
If you get the unhelpful error message, try:
sudo aptitude remove adobeair-enuWorked for me.
Cheers, Doug.
I also was getting and error when trying to upgrade from a previous version.
Finally figured out that Air installs a package. Removing the old package with
apt-get remove adobeair1.0solved the problem.
Thanks a million for the instructions and for the added method in the comments section. It was what I needed to install it.
Glad to help always.
removing the adobeair-enu package worked for me as well on 8.04 (without even closing firefox). i was having trouble before and couldnt figure out why. thanks so much!
Thanks!
Thanks for the tips. Just a few questions remain:
1. How do we “open the terminal”?
2. How do we use a wget command?
I’m assuming if I knew the answers to those two questions I would know how to run the other commands. This is why so many still use Windows. Why don’t programs used on Unix systems have auto-installers?