Installing Adobe AIR and TweetDeck on openSUSE 11.0
I’ve spent months in the Twitterverse but only this week took my first look at TweetDeck. Pretty shiny application, eh? I promptly set about installing it on all of my systems. The Windows XP and Mac OSX installations went pretty smoothly, but the Linux installation took a little tweaking.
On the TweetDeck site, yellow letters leap out, proudly imploring me to “Download now - it’s free!” Unfortunately, that page crashed my browser (Firefox) twice (and twice more during the writing of this post). After I got the page to load successfully, clicking on that button resulted in - well, nothing. No download. No error, either. I knew from the other OS installations that the download button was supposed to kick off an Adobe AIR installation followed by the TweetDeck installation.
I decided to just install Adobe AIR manually. I downloaded the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin file from the Adobe site, then keyed in this command from my terminal:
su ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
I got this:
No such file or directory.
A little searching reminded me that I needed to make sure the installer file was an executable. A simple “ls” revealed that it wasn’t, so I keyed this in next:
chmod 755 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Simple fix. When I next entered this:
su ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
…everything worked beautifully. I then used Adobe AIR to open the downloaded TweetDeck manual installer file, and then fired the app right up!
TweetDeck is a great tool. I especially like the Groups feature which allows me to trim the update list down to just those folks whose tweets I want to read at any given time. Since the application is still in beta, I’m sure a few glitches remain, but I’m finding it stable enough now for everyday use.
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November 17th, 2009 at 10:22 am
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