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.