This guide shows, howto install Adobe AIR on Fedora 12, Fedora 13, CentOS 5.5, Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6. This method works on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This guide also shows howto use Adobe AIR Application Installer and install TweetDeck.

What is adobe AIR?⌗

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications as a desktop applications, using existing HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash or Adobe Flex. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be deployed onto the desktop, rather than a fully-fledged application framework.

1. Change Root User⌗ 

sudo -i
## OR ##
su -

2. Install Needed Dependencies with YUM⌗

Install Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 – i686 – 32 bit dependencies⌗ 

yum install xterm

Install Fedora 12 – x86_64 – 64 bit dependencies⌗ 

yum install ld-linux.so.2 gtk2-devel.i686 libdbus-glib-1.so.2 \
libhal.so.1 rpm-devel.i686 libXt.so.6 gnome-keyring-devel.i686 \
libDCOP.so.4 libxml2-devel.i686 nss-devel.i686 libxslt.i686 xterm

Install Fedora 13 – x86_64 – 64 bit dependencies⌗ 

yum install ld-linux.so.2 gtk2-devel.i686 libdbus-glib-1.so.2 \
libhal.so.1 rpm-devel.i686 libXt.so.6 gnome-keyring-devel.i686 \
libDCOP.so.4 libxml2-devel.i686 nss-devel.i686 libxslt.i686 xterm

If these packages do not install, then try the following:

Enable Fedora 13 – i386 – Updates Repository⌗

Add following content to /etc/yum.repos.d/f13-i386-updates.repo file

[updates-f13-i386]
name=Fedora 13 - i386 - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/13/i386/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f13&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386

Clean all caches⌗ 

yum clean all

Install depencies with following command⌗ 

yum --enablerepo=updates-f13-i386 install ld-linux.so.2 gtk2-devel.i686 libdbus-glib-1.so.2 \
libhal.so.1 rpm-devel.i686 libXt.so.6 gnome-keyring-devel.i686 \
libDCOP.so.4 libxml2-devel.i686 nss-devel.i686 libxslt.i686 xterm

And then Install Adobe AIR 2 RC⌗

Install CentOS 5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5 – i386 – 32 bit dependencies⌗ 

yum install xterm

Install CentOS 5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5 – x86_64 – 64 bit dependencies⌗ 

yum install ld-linux.so.2 gtk2-devel.i386 libdbus-glib-1.so.2 \
libhal.so.1 rpm-devel.i386 libXt.so.6 gnome-keyring-devel.i386 \
libDCOP.so.4 libxml2-devel.i386 nss-devel.i386 libxslt.i386 xterm

3a. Install Adobe AIR 1.5 (Current Version 1.5.3)⌗

Download Adobe AIR 1.5⌗

Goto Adobe AIR download page and download Adobe AIR 1.5

Make Adobe AIR Installer Executable⌗ 

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Run Adobe AIR Installer⌗ 

./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Installing Adobe AIR 1.5⌗


Open (Start) Adobe AIR 1.5 Application Installer⌗

3b. Install Adobe AIR 2 (Current Version 2 RC)⌗

Download Adobe AIR 2⌗

Goto Adobe Labs download page, Agree terms of the agreement and download Adobe AIR 2 RC (RPM version)

Install Adobe AIR 2 RC⌗ 

rpm -Uvh air2_rc1_runtime_lin_051110.i386.rpm
## OR (if another version) ##
rpm -Uvh air2*.rpm

Open (Start) Adobe AIR 2 RC Application Installer⌗

4. Test Adobe AIR Installation and Install TweetDeck Application⌗

Note: Flash Player is needed installing Adobe AIR applications, so install Adobe Flash Player first

Goto Adobe AIR Marketplace and find some Adobe AIR programs, example TweetDeck:⌗

Click Download from Publisher⌗

Getting Ready to Install TweetDeck⌗

Accept TweetDeck Installation⌗

Select TweetDeck Installation Options and Location⌗

Enter root Password (if needed, depends on installation location)⌗

Start Using TweetDeck⌗

TweetDeck (0.34.3) Running on Fedora 13 – x86_64 (64 bit)⌗

Fedora 13 x86_64 Adobe Air 2 TweetDeck

Alternative Way to Start Adobe AIR Application Installation⌗

Download application.air file.⌗

Open Adobe AIR Application Installer from Menu and Select file.air⌗

OR

Run following command (example as root):⌗ 

Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer /exact/path/to/file.air

## Real example ##
Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer /home/user/Downloads/tweetdeck.air