How do I install Adobe Air using “Ubuntu Software Centre”

Question

I tried:

1. Launching Ubuntu Software Centre
2. I typed in "air" and found "adobe air"
3. It says "available from the 'maverick-partner' source. and has a button "use this source"
4. I clicked "use this source", I saw a "in progress (1)" icon come up in the side bar, and disappear, but nothing happened/changed.

I'm stuck.

I have actually already added the maverick-partner source to apt so I could install sun-java6-jdk.

Answer 1

I have looked into this and on the official Adobe Air 2 page for Linux, 64-bit binaries are not available, although 32-bit should work fine.

Try going through the steps on this page here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/521/cpsid_52132.html

Although they are intended for 9.04, I can't see why this wouldn't work on 10.10.

If following those steps don't work, try this article on OMG!Ubuntu!: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/01/how-to-install-adobe-air-on-ubuntu-64bit-2/

Answer 2

The partner repository has been causing trouble recently to some users when installing Adobe Flash, because the connection times out and the installation is interrupted. So I suspect you are experiencing the same problem in regard to Adobe Air. Try again later or download the deb file from Adobe directly.

Answer 3

I used this ppa. It has the 64-bit package.

To add the ppa and install Adobe Air run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dajhorn/adobeair
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install adobeair

You could just run the first two lines of code then install it in the software center if you wish :)

Answer 4

Go to the Adobe Air download page, and select the .deb version in the pull down menu, let it download and install like you would any other .deb file.

Here is a howto explaining how to install 32bit Adobe Air, on 64bit Ubuntu.... It doesn't look like here is an easier way to do it.