How To: TweetDeck on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

[dckirba]

Installing TweetDeck is not that complicated, but if you have a 64-bit install of Lucid Lynx, you'll face a little hurdle in the form of Adobe Air.

You see, Adobe Air only has a 32-bit version and you can't just install the .deb file found on the website and wait for everything to work fine.

All the information to install Adobe Air and TweetDeck on a 64-bit machine is freely available on the net. I didn't find all the information in one place so that's the reason for this howto. It's my first howto, so I'm looking forward to your feedback so I can make it as perfect as possible.

Most of this information is taken from OMG! Ubuntu's guide on installing Adobe Air for Ubuntu 64-bit. In fact, there are just two steps that are different.

There are two things that need to be done:

1. Install Adobe Air
2. Install TweetDeck

Installing Adobe Air

So first, you'll need to install Adobe Air. Follow these steps in order and all should work well.

• Get Adobe Air from here

This will download the .bin version of the Adobe Air Installer. Make sure you don't get the .deb because that causes a few problems down the line (The package manager will tell you that TweetDeck has broken dependecies and you'll have to remove it). Just remember where you downloaded the file for now.

• Download and install 'Getlibs' from here.

Getlibs helps install 32-bit libraries in a 64-bit environment. Save the .deb file and double-click to install it.

• Install the dependencies for Adobe Air.

Just copy and paste the following into a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and press enter

sudo apt-get install lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 libc6 libc6-i386 lib32nss-mdns

• Once that step is finished, copy and paste each of the following commands into a terminal one at a time.

If you have a slow internet connection, it may seem like nothing is happening, but be patient and everything should install correctly.

sudo getlibs -l libnss3.so.1d

sudo getlibs -l libnssutil3.so.1d

sudo getlibs -l libsmime3.so.1d

sudo getlibs -l libssl3.so.1d

sudo getlibs -l libnspr4.so.0d

sudo getlibs -l libplc4.so.0d

sudo getlibs -l libplds4.so.0d

sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so

sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0

sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1

• Remember the Adobe Air .bin file you downloaded in the first step? Move it to your home folder.

• Open a terminal and type the following:

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Hit enter and then type (or paste) this into the terminal and press enter.

sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Follow the on-screen instructions and you're almost done

• Adobe Air should be installed in the /opt directory in your File System. You now need to copy a file from there and paste it into the /usr/lib32 directory. The easiest way (for me) to do this was:

1. Open a terminal and type

   sudo nautilus

2. Navigate to opt>Adobe Air>Versions>1.0>Resources and look for the file named libadobecertstore.so
3. Right-click and select copy from the context menu (or select the file and press Ctrl-C)
4. Now navigate to usr>lib32 and paste the file in this directory

• Final step to install Adobe Air:

In the Terminal type the following command and press enter

sudo ldconfig

That's it for the first step. You now have Adobe Air installed.

Installing TweetDeck

• Go to TweetDeck's desktop download page here and click on the Install TweetDeck button. Now just follow the on screen prompts and you should be done.

Note: When the TweetDeck download asks you to save or open the file, you could choose to save the file especially if you have a slow internet connection. That way if something isn't working right, you can save yourself some time by just double-clicking the .air file to install TweetDeck next time.

[Brejcha]

sudo ./AdobeAirInstaller.bin

Just letting you know that the above code is wrong.

It should be sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Just need to have the AIR in CAPS!

[dckirba]

My bad! You're absolutely right. I've edited the information. Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers,
David

[sammyboy405]

Hands down the Best tutorial on Setting this up. Ive read many tutorials and this is bar none the best yet.

Ive been though several others and Air apps just never seemed to work right. They where laggy and crashed alot.

and I can Honestly say, everything is stable thus far.



thanks alot for this tutorial.

[edkirin]

@dckirba

I followed your steps exactly for installing Adobe Air. Everything was done without any error reported. When I start the AdeobeAIRInstaller (sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin) installer opens a dialog with agreement. After clicking the "I agree button", the following error is reported:



Any clue? I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 64-bit. Everything else works on my computer without any problems.

Thanks for your help.

[edkirin]

Ok, I solved the problem by running installer using kdesu instead sudo.

[dckirba]

@edkirin: Glad it worked. I'll edit the instructions to reflect KDE as well.

@sammyboy405: Glad you found it useful

Cheers,
David K

[carosalamanca]

I have already use the advice, and i could install tweetdeck at last.

Thank u, i'm not an system administrator,i'm a dummy at ubuntu and was so clear to follow the steps.

[lodder]

Thx for the how to but had to run with

gksudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Otherwise everything went perfect.

[ptviperz]

Anyone else having problems with Flash crashing after installing Air/Tweetdeck?