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Day 1. Install Fedora. Check. …Now Reinstall Fedora. F@#$. I need some Adobe AIR!

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Downloaded and installed Fedora 10 (64-bit).  Immediately set about setting up a Twitter client.  Chose one called Spaz at first.  In the end I found that I don’t like it as much as Twhirl, which is what I often use with Vista.  Both Spaz and Twhirl require Adobe AIR so I didn’t mess with either in the 64-bit version.  I ran into a brick wall with the whole 64-bit thing.  Installing AdobeAIR proved to be more trouble than it was worth.  AdobeAIR is only recently supported on Linux and 64-bit support is lacking.  Several workarounds are suggested on several different sites but I don’t want to play that game fresh out of the gate.  I run into the same crap with 64-bit versions of Windows, too.  RAW image thumbnail support in Vista comes to mind…  Anyway, I decided to bag 64-bit Fedora for now.  And so began install #2 of Fedora, 32-bit this time.  Doing a basic install of Fedora is just as mindless as installing Windows.  It might actually be easier.  Not needing anything particularly fancy I chose most of the default options along the way.  I’ll save customized installs for another time.

My second install of the day is now complete and my installation of AdobeAIR went exactly as it was supposed to this time.  No more 64-bit hangups.  The install process for AdobeAIR is simple but not because of anything Adobe does for you.  Getting it installed is kind of a speakeasy thing.  I had to do a few google searches to figure out exactly what to do.  And here are the steps for you:

Step 1 - Go to www.adobe.com and download AdobeAIR for Linux.  The file you will download is called AdobeAIRInstaller.bin.  It is an executable binary image but the permissions are not correct immediately after download.  That’s what steps 2 & 3 are for.
Step 2 - Open a terminal and su to root.  Navigate to the download directory for the user you are logged in as.  For me it was /home/colin/Download
Step 3 - From the terminal windows type chmod u+x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin.  Press enter.
Step 4 - From the terminal window (still as root) type ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin.  The installation process should begin.  In the installer window, follow the steps.

AdobeAIR Install for Linux (Fedora 10)

AdobeAIR Install for Linux (Fedora 10)

That’s it for getting AdobeAIR installed.  Next up:  Installing Spaz and/or Twhirl.

Posted by Colin on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 3:43 pm 
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  1. Day 1. AdobeAIR is on, Now I Need to Tweet! | ITdojo Information Technology Blog says:
    February 5, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    [...] or Spaz.  Both clients require AdobeAIR and I got that installed a little earlier this evening.  You can read about installing AdobeAIR by clicking here.  You can download twhirl here and you can download Spaz here.  When you download them using [...]



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