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Install Adobe Air on Linux Mint 13, 14, 15 (both 32 & 64 bit)

Last updated: November 3, 2013

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Adobe Air for Linux is no longer supported, but you can still install the version 2.6 on Ubuntu & Linux Mint with a little tweak.

If you’re running programs that are built on AIR, follow the below steps to install Adobe Air first.

1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal window, I’ll do the job by running a few commands in terminal.

2.) Download Adobe Air 2.6 for Linux via wget command, it’s about 15MB.

wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

3.) Install this package for 64-bit system:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

4.) Now the important part is to create a symbolic link to your gnome keyring:

  • For 32-bit, run the below 2 commands one by one: 
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
  • For 64-bit, run this: 
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

5.) Now give executable permission to the downloaded .bin package:

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

6.) Finally run it:

./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Follow the setup wizard, and done!

(Optional) To free up disk space, run below commands to remove downloaded package and the symbolic link you just created:

rm AdobeAIRInstaller.bin; sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

Enjoy!

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    21 responses to Install Adobe Air on Linux Mint 13, 14, 15 (both 32 & 64 bit)

    1. Avelinux October 10, 2013 at 3:01 am

      Hey thanks, but i got one problem every time i try to install wizard says that another is already other wizard runnig and then says error, can you help me?

    2. john.doe March 3, 2014 at 9:55 pm

      Thanks a lot! It’s working on Mint 16 “Petra” :)

    3. Nati Cortes March 6, 2014 at 3:24 am

      Gracias me funciono en Lubuntu 13.10, thanks :)

    4. Lucas March 26, 2014 at 11:41 pm

      Thanks, works here. Mint 16.

    5. Phil April 25, 2014 at 2:55 pm

      Superb this worked a charm on Mint 16. Thank you

    6. Andre April 27, 2014 at 8:49 am

      Thanks – Worked on Mint 13 64bit

    7. Samuel Almeida April 30, 2014 at 11:15 pm

      master of master thx worked on mint 16 64 bit

    8. Nathalie May 23, 2014 at 11:38 am

      Thank you so much it works ! I was so desperate when it didn’t worked (I need it to play a game named Dofus) so I reinstalled my linux mint 16 (yes I’m kind of radical) and followed your steps and it just worked perfecty.
      Thank you again !

    9. Dino June 4, 2014 at 6:10 am

      Thanks… Its worked with mint

    10. vaibhav June 18, 2014 at 5:23 am

      Thanks a lot!

    11. Bikette June 29, 2014 at 7:21 pm

      Merci ! La recette est vraiment efficace !!!
      Ça m’a enfin permis d’installer scratch 2 sur Mint 17.
      Ma fille peut enfin s’amuser avec scratch offline !!!

      • robertgor November 5, 2016 at 9:12 pm

        bonjour , pourriez-vous m’expliquer en francais comment installer scratch 2 sur linux
        d’avance merci de de toute aide

    12. joonkyu LIM July 7, 2014 at 1:05 pm

      Thank you very much ^^

    13. Internaute93FR July 27, 2014 at 8:57 am

      Hello,
      Thank you !

      This is OK for MINT 17 Papermate 32bits i386/i686.

      Cordially

    14. Dee Eon September 5, 2014 at 1:12 pm

      You’re proof that good guys live! Thanks for this on Petra!!!

    15. Aravind November 18, 2014 at 6:40 pm

      Any Ideas on how to install Adobe AIR 15.0 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? I know Adobe discontinue Air after 2.6, anyways any shortcuts to achieve it?

    16. Troi December 2, 2014 at 7:15 pm

      Installation erfolgreich –

      LM17 64MATE thumbs up!!

    17. P@ December 4, 2014 at 9:05 am

      Thanks, people like you make linux working for people like me :-)
      Got an error from Adobe, it wanted to have a Gnome Keyring.
      Found a trick here : http://askubuntu.com/questions/87447/how-can-i-install-adobe-air

    18. Sheena January 27, 2015 at 5:08 pm

      I have tried this, The Adobe installer comes up, then a small screen asking for my root password. When I put that in it says Authentication failed then closed the installation window

    19. Krishnamurthy January 26, 2017 at 3:41 pm

      Hi
      Installed on Mint 16 Started working
      good

    20. hartanta February 12, 2017 at 1:43 pm

      Thanks… it’s works!!
      Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
      Xfce 32-bit