Howto: Upgrade to Adobe Air Beta on Ubuntu

Published on October 18, 2008 in Software by Rami Taibah

I love Adobe Air! Applications like Twhirl and Woopra have become an important part of my daily computing arsenal. Over the past 6 month I have been running Adobe Air alpha which wasn’t exactly quirk-less. Twhirl never saved my passwords, never minimized to the panel, and the window always had a black shadow around it. A couple of days ago I decided to upgrade to beta, I thought it was going to be a walk in the park, well I was wrong.

Simply downloading the beta version and running it will not work (at least for me). I got a permission error, adding a ‘sudo’ or logging in as root won’t solve the problem either. So what we will need to do is completely remove the alpha version, install beta, and reinstall our Adobe Apps.

First let’s remove Adobe Air alpha:
sudo dpkg -r adobeair-enu

Then we need to insure that no old traces of Adobe Air exist:
sudo rm -rf /opt/Adobe\ AIR

Clean up the traces from old runtime by deleting .adobe and .macromedia folders from your home directory and /root.
rm -rf $HOME/.adobe $HOME/.macromedia
sudo rm -rf /root/.adobe /root/.macromedia.

Now, you will need to remove your current installed applications. A combo of dpkg and grep should do the trick. Just type in the name of your apps between the quotes. For example:
dpkg -l | grep "twhirl"

Finally, copy the result and plug it in front of a “sudo dpkg -r”

Now you have a system fully capable of installing Adobe Air Beta.

Happy tweaking!

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Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.

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  • http://miladinoski.trap17.com Miladinoski

    Thanks very much for the useful tutorial Rami! :)

    • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

      Thanks, hope you find it useful :)

  • http://www.2mxr.com/blog MaXeR

    Woha ! that’s fix my stupid problem :D ..
    btw : add “sudo” to “rm -rf /root/.adobe /root/.macromedia.” ;)

    • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

      Yup you got that right. Lol.

      Glad that it solved your problem…it was a pain I know.

  • http://vadi-blog.com Vadim P.

    I use both Adobe AIR and Woopra, and I don’t believe that Woopra has an AIR version… just java.

    • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

      You are indeed right Vadim! Sorry about that faux pas :)

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  • james

    so, where is the source of adobe air? Shouldn’t you be using something like WebRunner instead? Each person you convince to use AIR is someone who could be running, supporting or contributing to an open source RIA platform. Also notice that AIR for linux is beta while the other platforms are release and that some platforms will never see a native AIR beta or release.