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Comment: added Ant instuctions for Linux

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Adobe no longer provide updates for their installer for the AIR runtime used by the installer, so clicking the installer badge may give an error, or the package it sends you will fail to correctly install. Workarounds to install the AIR runtime are listed here.below, or (as of Apache Flex 4.12 nightly) you can use the Ant based method.

Ant based method (no AIR required)

Download the binary package ( currently, this is the nightly build from https://builds.apache.org/job/flex-sdk_release/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/out/) and unpack it

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wget https://builds.apache.org/job/flex-sdk_release/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/out/apache-flex-sdk-4.12.0-bin.tar.gz

tar zxvf apache-flex-sdk-4.12.0-bin.tar.gz

Now enter the unpacked directory and run the installer. You will need to tell it to download the last version of the AIR SDK that ran on Linux:

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cd apache-flex-sdk-4.12.0-bin/

ant -f installer.xml -Dair.sdk.version=2.8

You will be asked to agree to all the licence terms.

Now you just need to create folders to hold the player global file, and download the expected version:

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mkdir -p libs/player/11.1/

wget http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/updaters/11/playerglobal11_1.swc -O libs/player/11.1/playerglobal.swc

Install AIR on Debian based distributions (such as Ubuntu)

For 32bit systems

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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

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(thanks to http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2012/08/how-to-install-adobe-air-on-ubuntu-1204.html)

Install AIR on Fedora and other .rpm based system (such as CentOS)

Currently .rpm's of the installer are not available.

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