How to install Adobe Air 32bit on Ubuntu 10.

10 64bit

# Aloke Majumder ( www.alokemajumder.in )

Monday, 18th October 2010

Few days back, I was trying to install few Adobe Air based application on my Ubuntu 64-bit laptop,
like Tweetdeck and Flcikroom . But then i realized that presently Adobe AIR is only officially
available for 32-bit Linux. But it suppose to work on 64-bit Linux with the 32-bit compatibility
libraries. Though the .deb package distributed by Adobe can only be installed on 32-bit systems,
there is a way to install the Adobe AIR .deb package on a 64-bit system easily.
Here is the process , I followed :
1. Download the Adobe AIR .deb file from Adobe website’s download section

2. In the go to the directory containing the adobeair.deb file

3. Create a tmp dir:

mkdir tmp

4. Extract the deb file to the tmp dir:

dpkg-deb -x adobeair.deb tmp

5. Extract the control files:

dpkg-deb –control adobeair.deb tmp/DEBIAN

6. Change the Architecture parameter from “i386? to “all”:

sed -i “s/i386/all/” tmp/DEBIAN/control

7. Repackage the deb file:

dpkg -b tmp adobeair_64.deb

Now you can install Adobe AIR on a 64-bit system! From the command line just do:
sudo dpkg -i adobeair_64.deb
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