Mike Chambers

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Adobe AIR for Linux Beta is live

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We have just posted an update of the pre-release version of Adobe AIR for Linux. This version is a beta (previous version was an Alpha) and adds support for a ton of new AIR features (and fixes a lot of bugs). You can find all of the details in the release notes.

You can find more information, as well as download the bits from the Adobe AIR for Linux Beta labs page.

Written by mikechambers

September 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am

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  1. w00t ;)

    Pablo_aSH

    15 Sep 08 at 12:00 pm

  2. Mike, I have been trying to install the latest build for an hour on my Ubuntu machine. I was able to install the alpha just fine (back when it was released), but this one just refuses to finish the installation. I have copied the bin to /opt/, ran the isntaller as root, quit Firefox, and still get the very frustrating “contact your administration” error! I’m logged in as root, can’t you tell that _I AM_ the administrator? The forums have nothing recent about this, can you please forward this to someone who could help? I really want to support AIR, but sometimes it’s not so easy…

    TIA,
    Peldi

    Peldi Guilizzoni

    15 Sep 08 at 12:34 pm

  3. Thanks for keeping up with Linux : )

    Zarate

    15 Sep 08 at 1:33 pm

  4. @peldi

    I have forwarded your comment on to the AIR team.

    mike chambers

    mesh@adobe.com

    mikechambers

    15 Sep 08 at 2:26 pm

  5. Thanks for this new release. I will test my application on this new version of Air. In case of issues I will let you, and the team, know.

    funkyboy

    15 Sep 08 at 3:09 pm

  6. You would require to uninstall the alpha version of AIR(using dpkg or rpm command) before you install the beta. It doesn’t update your existing runtime.

    Srijesh

    15 Sep 08 at 7:45 pm

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  8. Hi all,

    this version require to remove previous version.

    ubuntu:

    $ sudo apt-get remove adobeair-enu

    Eduard

    16 Sep 08 at 7:58 am

  9. Thanks for continuing to work with the Linux community.

    I know it’s not that easy sometimes.

    Any word on when AIR will have the ability to use external executables (without your wrapper solution)?

    me

    16 Sep 08 at 10:15 pm

  10. It has been quite a while since I have felt the need to bitch and moan about Adobe ignoring Linux in regards to Flash/Flex/AIR! We may be a little behind, but the ongoing effort is obvious. Kudos to the Linux team.

    [Now, if we could just get that design view stuff worked out in Flex Builder! ;) ]

    Dave Shuck

    17 Sep 08 at 6:03 am

  11. I can confirm that I have exactly the same problem as Peldi installing AIR on Ubuntu…

    Dirk

    17 Sep 08 at 6:29 am

  12. Sorry, didn’t read all reactions yet… :-)
    The solution Eduard gave works 100% perfectly!

    Thanks!

    Dirk

    17 Sep 08 at 6:32 am

  13. I tested Posty on (ubuntu 8.04) and it works fine. Also some beta tester reported no issue in running Posty on the same distro. Hope this helps.

    funkyboy

    18 Sep 08 at 2:35 am

  14. Long time coming. Thank you for the wonderful news, Mike.

    Sravan

    22 Sep 08 at 5:57 am

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