Installing Tweetdeck on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit

So you wanna get TweetDeck rocking out on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit?

First, you have to get Adobe Air installed:

Grabbed most of the important bits from http://www.bauer-power.net/2009/05/getting-adobe-air-to-work-in-ubuntu-904.html

Most of the tutorials out there mentioned getting the getlibs-all.deb package from a site called boundlesssupremacy.com, but it looks like that site is gone now. Also, in some of the tutorials, they talk about some other dependencies you need. I decided to put them all in a nice script for easy installation! Follow these simple instructions and you'll have Adobe Air running on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit in no time!

• Download the shell script: air-lib.sh : attached below
• Download Adobe Air from here: http://get.adobe.com/air
• Open a terminal and cd into the directory where you downloaded the items from 1 and 2
• Make the two items executable

$chmod +x air-lib.sh
$chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

• Run the script

$sudo ./air-lib.sh

• Install Adobe Air
• $sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Now, grab a copy of TweetDeck from http://tweetdeck.com and you're good.... BUT the download link on the main page will most likely not work from Firefox if that's what you're using. So if this happens to you and Tweetdeck doesn't automatically start to install then just try the link below, and and then either follow the prompts to upgrade to version .26.1, or visit the site after it installs and this time the download link will work.... don't ask me why

• http://tweetdeck.com/beta/TweetDeck_0_25.air