Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[666philb]

One thing missing on my puppy is 'Mielophone'.. unfortunately it can only be installed with 'adobe air' .I've tried installing the ubuntu lucid adobe air from the ppm and it doesn't work.. ..

can anyone help?

[666philb]

Ok, the .deb file from the Adobe site installs fine. This is then supposed to run the installer, which it doesn't!

After rooting around i found the installer, but when i run it i get this error (attached)

How would i go about finding out the cause of this error? And remedying it? Obviously the installer needs something that puppy doesn't have, but i have no idea how to find out what that is!

[DM was on fire!]

Looks like Adobe Air has some dependencies. Link

[666philb]

Thanks DM was on fire!

I had seen that page, but had problems finding these.....

Other libraries - libnss3.so.1d libnssutil3.so.1d libsmime3.so.1d libssl3.so.1d libnspr4.so.0d libplc4.so.0d libplds4.so.0d

So i tried ubuntu's 'adobeair_2.0.4.13090-1maverick1_i386.deb', i managed to find all the dependencies for it but it didn't work, it just broke puppy!.

Maybe i should offer a prize for the first person to get adobe air working on my puppy.............

[666philb]

Hooray!!!! I've got adobe air and mielophone working on puppy, and i'm extremely happy now!

The solution.....
well...erm.... i did cheat a bit.

I upgraded to lucid puppy 520, installed virtualbox (amazing software!), installed XP (you could install any OS that supports adobe air) on virtualbox, installed adobe air and mielophone on my virtual XP
I then took a snapshot of the virtual system with mielophone open and ready to go. Created a shortcut and plopped it on my desktop. Zero to mielophone in about 1.5 seconds!

I know that this isn't the most elegant solution, but after hours of searching and trying to install it in a more traditional way (breaking puppy multiple times!) i am absolutely over the moon with it. And whilst i maybe don't deserve the whole toblerone, i'm definately going to have a chunk!

[r1tz]

Ok... The secret to getting air to work on puppy... is not installing it.

Just download the adobe air SDK, it is portable, so just junk it in /mnt/home/ and do the nessecary symlinks(if you want to)

download here: http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2

Then use something like that to run your application

[666philb]

HOORAY! ! ! !

Thanks to r1tz i now have both adobe air and mielophone working on my puppy, and r1tz's solution should also work on any puppy.

To clarify, i downloaded the adobe air sdk, extracted it to a folder in my home directory. i then downloaded my app 'mielophone.air' and extracted it to its own folder using 7zip. I then symlinked from the 'application.xml' in my mielophone folder, to the adobe/bin folder (the one with 'adl' inside it). Next i did 'terminal here' in the adobe/bin folder and typed

[r1tz]

btw, for people reading this in future, You can unzip the .air file with the command