Installing Adobe Air 2.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit

First, go to Adobe’s archived Air files and grab Adobe AIR 2.6.0 Linux (15.4 MB). Next, grab the file getlibs-all.deb right here. The guy who wrote it doesn’t seem to be hosting it anymore, and it’s not a huge program, just extremely useful for finding 32-bit libraries for a 64-bit system. You can right-click “getlibs-all.deb” and open with Gdebi Package Manager, and click Install. So far, so good.

Next, you need to make sure to install libhal-storage1, lib32nss-mdns, and libgnome-keyring0 if it’s not installed. Open a terminal and run:

sudo apt-get install libhal-storage1 libgnome-keyring0 lib32nss-mdns

It should ask you to install (Y/n) if they’re not already there. Let them install, and rejoice. Now, we need to install all the missing 32-bit libraries that it will need. You can’t get these from apt-get unless you know what they all are. Simply use the following commands: (Note! Since I wrote this, libgnome-keyring0 has been updated to a newer version!)

sudo getlibs -l libhal-storage.so.1 sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1

Or possibly, if you’ve updated libgnome-keyring:

sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

For each one, it will ask if you want to install (a lot of) libraries. Let them all download and install, and we’re almost done! Next, we link a couple of libraries (they’re there, but not where Air is looking for them). Run the following:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0

And then run the actual Air installer. In a terminal, cd to the directory you stored “AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” in and run this:

chmod +x ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

 

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