Tim.Igoe.me.uk

A lot of people have been trying to get various Adobe Air powered applications to work on their 64 bit Linux installs, while some have succeeded in some form or another, plenty have given up too. I was nearly another.

However, I have finally worked out everything needed to get Adobe Air, and Tweekdeck, BBC iplayer etc all running happily on my Ubuntu Karmic 64 bit machine.

First off, we need to install the 32 bit libraries for Ubuntu.



Now, for those Gnome users, we may run into a small problem before Air Applications will run, there is no nice way to install the 32 bit Gnome Keyring libraries into the system. The libraries installed at 64 bit, we need 32 bit ones for Air to work correctly.

While this is by no means an idea solution, we will manually install the latest libraries into the /usr/lib32 folder.



Once this has been done, you should then be able to go to a site, for example that of Tweetdeck, and click on their 'Download it now' link, this should pop up a prompt to install Adobe Air, and then one for Tweekdeck itself.

This method of installing Air, is much easier than manually downloading and installing it.

I have so far done this on both my desktop and laptop, without issues.