19.6.09

Installing Adobe AIR in Fedora 11

So here it goes, I wanted to install twhirl and was required to install Adobe AIR of course, however, I got this error several times.

Sorry, an error has occured.
An error occured while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be
allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator.

Apparently, I have several dependencies to install. So here are the steps to make it work.

1. Issue the following commands.
su -c "yum install gtk2-devel rpm-devel"

(Its very similar to Ubuntu (if you have used one), that every AIR app you install will have a .deb equivalent, in this case a .rpm.)

2. Download Adobe AIR.
Download Link

3. Install it by issuing the following commands.
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
su -c "./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin"

4. Now AIR is installed, but mostly will not be able to install via its Adobe AIR Application Installer UI or give you an "Error #5100"; install apps via its terminal command.
Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer /media/Shared/Downloads/twhirl-0.9.2.air

(be sure to explore to the apps directory, rather than changing to its directory)

Now you should have a successfull Adobe AIR installation!

Credit goes to, Dustin Patterson, I just made it simplier. =)