Here you can find hints and tips if you are having issues getting the SDK installer to work.
If you had installed a previous (pre-release) version of the installer app, you will probably get an AIR error because of the mis-matched certificates. If you see such an error, you may need to uninstall the installer before continuing.
You must allow unsigned apps (in Security & Privacy pane of the System preferences) in order to install. In recent versions of OS X, this became a blocking error instead of a warning by default. This preference setting allows to revert it to a warning, non-blocking message.
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 below, or (as of Apache Flex 4.12 nightly) you can use the Ant based method.
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
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:
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:
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 |
For 32bit systems
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0 |
For 64bit systems
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0 |
Then for either system:
download the Adobe AIR installer by running the following command:
wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin |
Once downloaded, you need to add "execute" permission to the installer:
sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin |
The last thing to do is executing the Adobe AIR installer:
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin |
Confirm is installed once complete
dpkg -l|grep adobeair |
should list 'ii adobeair 1:2.6.0.19170 i386 Adobe AIR 2'. You can now click the installer on the main download page and it should work fine.
(thanks to http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2012/08/how-to-install-adobe-air-on-ubuntu-1204.html)
Currently .rpm's of the installer are not available.
Follow the instructions above to install the AIR runtime, then there has been some success reported using alien to convert the .deb package and install that. You will find the installer in /opt if all went well.