Updating Adobe AIR in Linux
I don't use my dedicated Linux PC (running Fedora 10) as much as I used to a year or two ago. So, when I fired it up today to update Fedora and install Seesmic for Facebook, I found I also needed to update Adobe AIR from version 1.5 to 1.5.1. However, since I was logged in as an unpowered user (not root), AIR wouldn't auto update even if I su-ed to root and tried to run twhirl or Seesmic for Facebook to start the process. Here's what I ended up doing.
- Manually downloaded Adobe AIR 1.5.1 for Linux from the Get Adobe Air download page
- Open a terminal window
- su - to root (sudo on other Linux distros)
- cd (change directory) to where the AIR installer was downloaded
- chmod u+x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Run the installer from the shell -> ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
The Adobe AIR installer detected the older version and asked if I wanted to install it. I clicked OK and the installation proceeded as expected.
March 25th, 2009 - 01:10
Hmm, im a linux user, but when im using adobe air i always windows, thanks for info..
October 4th, 2009 - 13:26
I am developing a combined Adobe Flex and AIR application to manage and organize knowledge, based on topic maps: http://www.quesucede.com/page/show/id/polishedcode. Furthermore, the actual topic map engine was developed with ActionScript 3 and uses SQLite as a backing store (for object graph serialization and de-serialization). With Adobe AIR, I am hoping to provide a vastly improved user experience. Specifically, the availability of powerful graph visualization libraries that allow you to visually layout the relationships between topics contribute to making the whole topic map experience very intuitive and appealing.