Development and Howto02 May 2008 03:13 am

Running AIR applications w/o installing AIR on Linux

Recently, Adobe released an AIR client for Linux. Some people complained about the need for root privileges for not only installing AIR itself, but also for installing AIR applications. If you are worried about providing your root password to a binary, here is a work around.

  1. Download the AIR SDK
  2. Unzip the AIR SDK
  3. Download your favorite AIR application
  4. Unzip the .AIR file (yes, unzip it)
  5. /path/to/air_sdk/bin/adl -nodebug /path/to/air_application/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /path/to/air_application

For example, if you were to unzip the AIR sdk to ~/AIR-SDK and unzip Spaz to ~/spaz, the command for #5 would be

~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl -nodebug ~/spaz/META-INF/AIR/application.xml ~/spaz/

Good luck!

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