Patrick Micka

Adobe AIR Runtime For Linux

September 18, 2008

Adobe AIR, the runtime environment I’ve written about before, has been moved out of beta and is now inline with releases for Windows and Mac. Expect apps to run more consistently with how they appear on other operating systems as well as having better integration with the Linux environment . That means apps won’t disappear when you minimize them.

Be sure to uninstall any previous releases of Adobe AIR before moving forward. Especially alpha/beta releases. This can be done in a number of ways depending on how it was initially installed.

Enter these commands to get the newest version (currently 1.5.2):

cd ~/Desktop

wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Give the .bin file execution rights:

sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Run the bin file to install/upgrade AIR:

sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Filed under: How To,Linux,Ubuntu