Sunday, April 29, 2012

How To Install Adobe Air 2.6 In Ubuntu 12.04

Adobe Air has stopped support for Linux, so you'll be using the old version 2.6. After downloading from their website, you just change the permissions for that installer:

$sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

To install:
$sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

An error will occur about gnome keyring, to fix this, you just have to create a symbolic link to the /usr/lib/:

$sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
$sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

Then try to install Adobe Air again, and it will work.

Note: Don't forget to remove the links you've created:

$sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
$sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

That's it!

10 comments:

Rob said...

That worked perfectly, thank you very much!

papajon said...

I tried this but I get an error as follows:
/tmp/air.9L7KUP/setup: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I followed your steps but can't get past this. Any thoughts?

Jon

papajon said...

I tried this but I get an error as follows:
/tmp/air.9L7KUP/setup: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I followed your steps but can't get past this. Any thoughts?

Jon

Ravya said...

many thanks !! works very smoothly


Ravikant

James said...

@papajon - I had this error, this blog post enabled me to get Air installed: http://jeffhendricks.net/?p=68

Pablo RQ said...

It works on Ubuntu 12.04!
Thanks!!

Elan said...

Got error:

execvp: Permission denied

Rahul Shakya said...

THanks a lot. THis is very helpful.

Rahul Shakya said...

This worked in ubuntu 12.04 too. Very thanks

Ian Jay Padios said...

Thank you very much. It works.