How to Install Adobe AIR on Ubuntu

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on April 6, 2008

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.

  1. Open the Terminal
  2. Download the file from here using the wget command:
    http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
  3. The name of the file is AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
  4. Save the file in the Home folder (Places > Home Folder)
  5. Run this command:
    chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
  6. 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.

  • http://www.eventmanagerblog.com Julius

    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

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Thanks for mentioning that out. I fixed it :)

  • http://stuffem.wordpress.com emsquared

    Big thanks here too. Helped me get Spaz and twhirl running on Ubuntu.

  • makri

    Thanks for this note. Got me started real quick on AIR

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  • Ronald

    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.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    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.

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  • http://www.thetacticalnuke.com Jason Young

    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 The first few guides I found were so outdated that they recommended installing it under WINE >_>

  • http://www.sleeperberth.com/ Curtis Cross

    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?

    • syed

      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

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  • http://rocraida.blogspot.com Manuel Silva Vega

    Thx, very very mucho!

  • Rich

    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!

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  • ThisGuyDoug

    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.

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  • Someone

    Big thanks.

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  • ninay

    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!

  • Phil

    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

    • Amanda

      Well, your desktop is a folder. So if you're not in the folder “Desktop” you probably want to run “chmod +x Desktop/adobeair…”

  • http://www.randomkitty.net giania

    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.)

  • http://ubuntufacile.org Simone

    @Ronald : As usual you can’t get it on a 64bit system.

  • Phil

    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

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  • http://notas.litelate.com algarcia

    thanks a lot in the name of all us ubuntu newbies!

  • http://hackerashwin.blogspot.com Quiz_Master

    Nice…
    Adobe Air up and working in Ubuntu 8.04. Its a hell lotta glitchy though!

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  • http://Monsterscube.com amer

    thanks :D this is very helpful for noob like me.

    If u hv any problem just make sure the chmod is done in the right folder.

  • khaled

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  • http://www.ologie.info Thomas Raukamp

    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 …

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  • syed

    the download link should be modified to point to latest released version of AIR 1.5 on linux (http://get.adobe.com/air)

    • http://www.sizlopedia.com Saad Hamid

      Link modified. Thanks for reporting.

  • http://absolutevoid.blogspot.com sebin

    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?

  • Ronhead

    Excelent!
    thats works

    thanks

  • http://www.priyankawriting.blogspot.com Priyanka D

    Thanks a ton!

  • http://twitter.com/a1mega Ed Grant

    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.

  • Tim

    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)

    • http://adju.st Doug Winter

      If you get the unhelpful error message, try:

      sudo aptitude remove adobeair-enu

      Worked for me.

      Cheers, Doug.

  • http://www.6zap.com Dror

    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 adobeair1.0

    solved the problem.

  • http://www.retaggr.com/card/cibeles Cibees

    Thanks a million for the instructions and for the added method in the comments section. It was what I needed to install it. :)

    • http://www.sizlopedia.com Saad Hamid

      Glad to help always.

  • http://blog.quaternio.net jessy

    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!

  • Roberto

    Thanks!

  • http://GrowMap.com Internet Strategist

    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?

    • http://agilefocus.com/ William

      To open the terminal, under Ubuntu you go to the main menu, pick “Accessories” and pick “Terminal”. To download something with wget, type “wget” and a space and then paste in the link.

      Most programs used under Unix do have auto-installers. See all the software mentioned in your package manager (on Ubuntu, it’s “synaptic”) to see what I mean.

  • Otto

    Thanks for the info. So, root access required to install AIR AND root access required to install AIR applications? Sigh. Adobe’s clueless.

  • Luuk

    Thanks!

    (the Express Installer most sites use doesnt work for me.. )

  • http://joaopedropereira.com/ João Pedro Pereira

    I’ve done like you said and it worked great for me ;) .

  • Mac

    Thanks a lot, worked like a charm!

  • http://None Dr_Willis

    How Do you totally remove this Adobe air? Or better yet. How does one install this for just a single user? (I am a bit untrusting of things from adobe)

    I also noticed the binary for the Adobe Air programs are of the nameing.
    scheme

    “/usr/bin/Adobe AIR Application Installer” Egads.. thats just Strikes me as such a potential for problems. :)

  • http://3dfreeair.com vijay

    wooow . it’s working on linux os . is it possiable to Mac os

  • Leke

    You need to navigate to the same directory the .bin is located

    Perhaps…

    cd /home/your_home_name/Desktop

  • Leke

    Hi, Linux didn’t automatically associate .air with the installer.
    Do this…

    Right click on the .air file
    Choose > Open with other application
    Slect > Use a custom command
    Navigate the filesystem > /usr/bin/Adobe AIR installer
    Click > Open

    The icon should change and you can now install AIR apps

  • Name

    thank you seems to have worked brilliantly :)

  • Name

    thank you seems to have worked brilliantly :)

  • http://artsyhands.com/ Waisybabu

    Works like a charm! :D

  • NewJerseyTico

    wow…thanks!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/TimBrazer Tim Brazer

    Thanks for the quick tutorial. When I downloaded Adobe Air I had a .bin file and had no idea what to do with it. I Googled for some help and this was the first result. :)

    Thanks!

  • staylor29a11

    thank ^u^ ^_^

  • http://www.yousuckatjoomla.com gregrickaby

    Perfect! Works like a charm on Ubuntu 9.04 x64. Thank you!

  • Nader

    Thx alot man ur the best :D

  • http://twitter.com/Sirupsen Simon

    If you can not do the simple “sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” thing, try the following:

    $ chmod 777 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    $ ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

    Worked for me, and remember to close your browser first. :)

  • http://twitter.com/Sirupsen Simon

    If you can not do the simple “sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” thing, try the following:

    $ chmod 777 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    $ ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

    Worked for me, and remember to close your browser first. :)

  • http://es-la.facebook.com/isaiasgah Isaias Arredondo

    Hi Thanks for the information!!

  • Amanda

    Sigh. I'm still getting the stinking “An error occurred while installing” message.

    Then my package manager tells me there's a broken installation and asks me to remove Adobe Air.

  • http://shawnstewart.mp Shawn S

    I worked perfectly. Thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/oldnormanbates oldnormanbates

    I can't get adobe air to install on a redo of my eeebuntu 3.0, (Ubuntu 9.04),Asus 1000HE Netbook , Atom uP. Always worked before, now says not enoughj permissions-Tweedeck jonesing Im Root- Anybody DM oldnormanbates

  • http://artsyhands.com/ Waisybabu | artsyHANDS

    I'm having issues installing it on Ubuntu 9.10… but heh, who cares, right?

  • http://www.socialblogr.com/ Gojeg

    Hmm..I'm now using Ubuntu.. :P Thanks for your tips.

  • http://thesinneruniverse.blogspot.com/ Gilberth

    It's what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

    Have a nice day

  • Michael

    For anybody who may still be wondering, I have been able to install AIR on 64-bit Linux. I am using opensuse 11.2, so the following package names may not quite correspond with your distro. I had to install the following files:

    libasound2-32bit, libgcc44-32bit, libncurses5-32bit, libstdc++33-32bit, libstdc++44-32bit, libxml2-32bit, mozilla-nss-32bit, mozilla-nspr-32bit, gtk2-devel, gnome-keyring-32bit, libxml2-devel-32bit, libxml2-devel, libxslt-32bit, rpm-32bit, rpm-devel

    This made the installation work perfectly. I hope this helps someone out.

  • thienhaflash

    thanks. It works great !!!

  • wlg

    I get : Step 5 – Operation not permitted

    • Michael

      It sounds like a permissions problem. Did you save the installer to your $HOME direcotry? Go to the folder where you saved the installer in the terminal, and type 'ls -l' this will show all of the permissions for the files/folders. Make sure that the installer file is owned by your user (Look for something like 'john users'. If it says something like 'root root', then it is owned by the root.) If it is owned by root you will need to chown it to your user.

      If you do not know how to chown a file, then it may be simpler to run steps 5 and 6 as root (Do Not Get Used To This). Try typing 'su' and then entering your root password. Once you are root, run steps 5 and 6. If this is successful, be sure to type 'exit' to get out of superuser mode, and then go read about chown.

  • Connor

    Thanks a million, worked like a charm!

  • Joe

    This works, but one problem I did have (Kubuntu 9.04 install) was that KDE would not start after a reboot. Problem seemed to be that I didn't have permission to write to .ICE???? (forget the rest of the name, but is started with “.ICE”). Had to drop into a command line session and chown the file to my self followed by chmod 660.

    Then I was able to boot into KDE. Wondering if there isn't something more I should know?

  • bryanne

    Thank you. Being new to Linux this was scary, but with your help it is installed! By the way I am running ubuntu 9.10.

  • http://animalcrossingfav.info/ Nick

    Thanks so much! It is installed. I needed this to install Pandora One Player. Thanks!

  • http://animalcrossingfav.info/ Nick

    Thanks so much! It is installed. I needed this to install Pandora One Player. Thanks!

  • jishnu

    thank you, its worked!

  • VikingP

    thank duder' (dudette)

  • 3zzat

    thanx
    it worked

  • 3zzat

    thanx
    it worked

  • http://www.ghorab.ws Ghorab

    thank you, now i have to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu :D

  • lloyd

    Perfect! Many thanks, I can now watch the live football in Ubuntu :-D

  • cherif

    thank you more

  • vishaltelangre

    Hey brother there, I got “Bus error” while processing this on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid lynx LTS…!!

    Check the procedure I had done here:


    vishal@vishal:~$ cd /home/vishal/Downloads
    vishal@vishal:~/Downloads$ ls
    AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    GDM-BlueSwirl.tar.bz2
    install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
    tmp
    ubuntuone-client-1.2.1.tar.gz
    ubuntuone-installation-details
    virtualbox-3.2_3.2.0-61806~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb
    vishal@vishal:~/Downloads$ chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    vishal@vishal:~/Downloads$ sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
    [sudo] password for vishal:
    Bus error

    What will be solution for this? Tell me if there is any other package in debian or canonical distro there… So that I'll easily install and configure it with aptitude!

    Thanks in advance!

  • http://twitter.com/oranxess Osama Yousef

    thank you it worked

  • http://www.derroman.com derroman

    this also works for ubuntu 10.04 64-Bit Version!!! Awesome! and automatic update to 2.0!

    thanks!

  • Narcarsiss

    Worked Well thankyou.
    i didnot even have to chroot the file just sudo ./file

    Thanks again for link to adobe air

  • G_uinit

    thank you very very much man thanks , every body makes it so hard to install this , but is just so easy

  • that guy

    You don’t need to enter sudo. In fact, you shouldn’t.

  • Sirchrisgr

    Great

  • hypo

    Thanks for the help, I sometimes wqonder why Linux installs are so much harder than their Windows and OS X brethren.

  • http://vb.maas1.com maas1

    Thanks for the tutorial, worked like charm.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tresor.tshishi Trésor Kandolo Tshishi

    Thanks a lot dude !

  • Shemcphe

    Oh Thank God!

  • Human1990

    Thank you!

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