How to install Adobe Air in Ubuntu 11.4 64-bit

Jun 2, 2011 by Narga    No Comments    Posted under: Ubuntu Softwares

Install Adobe AIR in Ubuntu

Have you ever tried to install Adobe Air in Ubuntu. I’ve installed Ubuntu 11.4 64bit and I find 64-bit binaries of AIR are not currently available. Right now Adobe AIR is only officially available for 32-bit Linux.
Installing Adobe AIR 64-bit on Ubuntu can be quite tricky if you’re not quite familiar with the commands and if you’re new to Linux/Ubuntu. So for the sake of those users, I’m sharing this short step-by-step tutorial on how to install Adobe AIR 64-bit on Ubuntu.

1. Download the Adobe AIR installer – http://get.adobe.com/air/
2. In a terminal window go to the directory containing the adobeair.deb file then create adobe-air-x64 folder with command:

   mkdir adobe-air-x64

3. Extract the deb file to the adobe-air-x64 folder:

   dpkg-deb -x adobeair.deb adobe-air-x64

4. Extract the control files:

   dpkg-deb --control adobeair.deb adobe-air-x64/DEBIAN

5. Change the Architecture parameter from “i386″ to “all”:

   sed -i "s/i386/all/" adobe-air-x64/DEBIAN/control

6. Package the 64-bit deb file:

   dpkg -b adobe-air-x64 adobeair-all.deb

Now you can install Adobe AIR on a 64-bit system by running adobeair-all.deb file.
Note: Some AIR application not works correct in Adobe AIR 64-bit.

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