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Adobe air is a light weighted tool that makes me happy while i on the Windows.I used clients for twitter (twhirl) , Spaz , Webkut and many other applications.Adobe it self says ¨Adobe® AIR™ is a cross-operating system run time that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash®, and Adobe Flex® technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop¨

Recently while using Ubuntu Studio i feels the need of Adobe Air and other applications so i tried to installed Air for my Linux box. Here is the simple process to install it on Linux (test ed on Ubuntu Studio 8.04)

1. Download the Adobe air from here ( http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/linux/adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin)
2. Save the file in the Home ( file name will be adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin )
3. Go to the start and open a terminal ( Applications–> Accessories –> Terminal)
4. Now from Terminal Window go to the director where we saved Adobe AIR installer (/home/):cd /home/
5. From terminal run

• Normally the downloaded files are not have enough privilege so we will make it compatible for installing, for this we will increase its permission level by

or

• Now Adobe Air is ready for installation, use this command to proceed further
  ./filename

  or

  ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

• Now you can easily install AdobeAIR
• You can easily install ADOBEAIR applications on your LINUX BOX.

Note: If you want to uninstall an AIR application, open a terminal again (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).

In this example I will show how to uninstall Spaz.

To find out the correct name of the Spaz package, run

for example output as

Hence the package we have to remove is

Note: If you face any problems in the above installation then feel free to bother me via comments. Comments are open for you.

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