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jimb84647925
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Dec 11, 2016 1:47 PM UTC
Question

Installing AIR on Ubuntu 16

Almost have install working on Ubuntu following this install guide

http://www.noobslab.com/2015/05/adob...or-ubuntu.html

However near the end of the install I get

Now running AdobeAir installer

/tmp/air.QYAFGU/setup: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Removing installer file and unlinking symbolic files

So where do I get the libgtk-x11-2.0 library? I tried simply doing a
sudo apt install libgtk-x11-2.0

but get couldn't find package error

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vurkkosturiumGajo
Participant
Jun 11, 2017 3:40 AM UTC

I have found this post while researching for installing Air on Ubuntu 16.04.

I haven't even started to install -- yet to decide procedure -- but I can answer your question. It may be useful for others.

The Ubuntu package that contains (and installs) the libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 file is: libgtk2.0-0

Not to give you a fish only, but also to teaching you how to fish:  One way (among others, but this is the best for me) you could find it yourself is:

Install the apt-file package.

DESCRIPTION

   apt-file is a command line tool for searching files in packages for the APT package management system.

Notice that this tool will give you the answer for a file whether its package is installed or not. This is a great point.

So:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install apt-file

Once installed, do this:

apt-file update

This last command downloads the latest and greatest list of contents of packages from their remote sources --i.e., in all the repositories that your system uses -- (and the location can also be configured if you wanted).

After this, you can search offline at any time for any file, with the simple command:

apt-file search file_you_are_looking_for

This is extremely cool!

Example:

I want to search for all files which name start with libgtk-x11

Command:     apt-file search libgtk-x11

Here is the result of the search. Notice line 2.  The first part, before the ':' is the name of the package.  The part after the ':' is the name of the file.

$ apt-file search libgtk-x11

libgtk2.0-0: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

libgtk2.0-0: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.30

libgtk2.0-0-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.30

libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.a

libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so

$

Good luck for you, and for me.

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ridhij4208356012135538
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
Jun 12, 2017 10:01 AM UTC

Hi,

Adobe AIR is no more supported on Linux platforms. Please see Tech specs and system requirements | Adobe AIR  for supported platforms. The last Adobe AIR version supported on Linux was version 2.6.  This is available for download from the AIR Archive page.

Thanks!

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