How to fix Adobe AIR’s installation on Ubuntu 9.04

rm -rf ~/.adobe
sudo rm -rf /root/.adobe/ /root/.macromedia/ /root/.appdata/ ~/.macromedia/ ~/.appdata
sudo rm -rf /var/opt/Adobe\ AIR/
sudo rm -rf /etc/opt/Adobe/
sudo dpkg -P $(dpkg -l | grep adobeair | awk -F" " '{print $2}')
sudo dpkg -P $(dpkg -l | grep adobe-cert | awk -F" " '{print $2}')

8 Comments

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  Tudor August 17th, 2009 at 17:14

  Why do you install it in the /root instead of ~/radu ?

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  Radu

  August 17th, 2009 at 17:45

  I am not installing it there. The place is /opt/Adobe. Though it seems that the installation process automatically puts some files there as it requires sudo privileges.

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  TheGreenManalishi August 26th, 2009 at 14:09

  Your solution worked perfectly for me, thanks a bunch!

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  Martin September 6th, 2009 at 16:17

  Thanks!!! The fix worked!

  To bad Adobe didn’t figure this out when they wrote the installer. It should have done a better job of cleaning its own mess up, or throw a more detailed error message that points to a similar solution on their website.

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    Radu

    September 6th, 2009 at 16:34

    The funniest part is the one where you are asked to contact your administrator in a Linux environment…

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  Sethster September 7th, 2009 at 00:30

  Thanks . This fix worked for me as well.

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  ubutnux September 10th, 2009 at 08:06

  it works perfectly. very nice info

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