Jaunty Jantelope and Adobe Air

I upgraded my Sta­ble Intre­pid install to Jaunty beta today; dur­ing the update sev­eral things were unin­stalled, includ­ing Adobe Air and all the Air appli­ca­tions I had installed myself (Spaz mainly) and I fig­ured I would write about how I got Spaz installed and work­ing.  For those of you who don’t know Spaz is a awe­some Twit­ter client that I highly rec­om­mend because it’s Sim­ple, Use­ful, and allows use of Ping.fm (which is a ser­vice that updates sta­tuses on mul­ti­ple net­works) and it was writ­ten by a friend of mine who is actively main­tain­ing it.

The first step to get­ting Spaz installed is to install Adobe Air 1.5 on to Jaunty, this step is fairly easy (there are a few extra steps for 64 bit systems.)

(All archi­tec­tures) Down­load Adobe Air 1.5 from Adobe open a ter­mi­nal win­dow, change direc­to­ries to the folder you down­loaded AdobeAirInstall.bin to (most likely: cd ~/Desktop) and type in:

chmod +x AdobeAirInstaller.bin

These steps are for 64 bit sys­tems, please skip them if you’re on 32bit Jaunty:

Install GetLibs from http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb

Make sure 32bit keyring is installed and the 32bit sound library

sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.sosudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Get any remain­ing required libraries

getlibs ./AdobeAirInstaller.bin

Back to all architectures

Exe­cute Adobe AirIn­staller by running

sudo ./AdobeAirInstaller.bin

At this point if you are on 64bit Jaunty and you didn’t have any prob­lems installing, to copy the adobe­cert­store shared object to where Air expects to find it run:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32

Next step will be to down­load Spaz from http://funkatron.com/spaz. You can select run on prompt or alter­na­tively run Appli­ca­tions -> Acces­sories -> Adobe Air Appli­ca­tion Installer and browse for the spaz.air file. Fol­low the Spaz prompts and allow it to install. Now all that should need to be done is allow the appli­ca­tion access to the keyring once it’s being run and voila you have Spaz! if you have fur­ther prob­lems please let me know by tweet­ing @mfacenet or email­ing me @ shawn.stratton (a.t) gmail.com and I will try to help as much as possible.

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