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Connect addin for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
May 11, 2011
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Hi,

I'm trying to convert the .deb package of Adobe Connect add-in to .rpm to install on RHEL, tryed with Alien, but does not work.

Anyone knows why the Adobe, that always lauched your applications to most commons Linux packages versions, like: .rpm and .tar.gz, is packing this important add-in only in the Debian / Ubuntu format?

Too many companies uses RHEL or SuSe Linux, the Debian / Ubuntu are very used in Academic environments, wherever...

I'm waiting for a good suol to help me convert this package...

Thanks by attention,

Ricardo de Aquino Borges

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BuccaneerBill

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I missed Dan's post when I figured out how to do the install, his is probably a bit cleaner than mine. Upgrading to F15 is on my todo list.

I setup my work's AdobeConnect Pro in my XP VM and tried to connect to my meeting from Fedora 13 and sadly it just hangs with the "Loading Adobe Connet" window, so F13 is probably a no go (and I'm not going to persue it much further until I upgrade to Fedora 15).

Dan, did you actually get a full connection under Fedora 15?

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dan_kozlowski

Participant

Yes but there was another issue with libcurl that required me to build an

older version from source. I can check on exactly what i did when I get

home.

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Anonymous

Dan,

Do you recall which version of libcurl you built from source? I have libcurl-7.20.1-5.fc13 installed and received the error below with the same behavior that BuccaneerBill described. I built libcurl 7.21.6 because that was the version listed on an Ubuntu 10 package website, but that had the same behavior.

./connectaddin: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by ./connectaddin)

Thanks,

Tim

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BuccaneerBill

Participant

I got it working (passes the "Test Meeting Connection" page) under 64bit F13. YMMV. No warranty that it will not format your hard drive or be mean to kittens. And if you do not understand the commands, I recommend installing the supported Ubuntu on a VirtualBoxOSE VM.

sudo yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i686 dpkg PackageKit-gtk-module.i686

dpkg -X ConnectAddin.deb .

mkdir -p $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player/www.macromedia.com/bin/connectaddin/

mv ./usr/local/connectaddin $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player/www.macromedia.com/bin/connectaddin/

mv ./usr/local/digest.s $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player/www.macromedia.com/bin/connectaddin/

Enjoy!

--Bill

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Anonymous

Great posting. I've passed this on to the product team. So you did thois with the host add-in under Red Hat Fedora 13. Just wondered if you had tried this under Fedora 15 which is their latest?

Just curious....nice work!

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dan_kozlowski

Participant

I did this under RHEL and fedora 15 using just my knowledge of deb's.

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dan_kozlowski

Participant

so this isn't an issue of "Supporting" another operating system. Its just a matter of Adobe hiring compitent engineers to actually do meaningfull work. I present to you the whole 30 minute ordeal of me getting this to work.

download the .deb file then run these commands

ar vx ConnectAddin.deb

su -c 'tar -tzvf data.tar.gz -C /'

export currentUser=`whoami`
ADDIN_TARGET_ABS_PATH="/home/"$currentUser$ADDIN_TARGET_PATH_USER
mkdir -p $ADDIN_TARGET_ABS_PATH
cd $ADDIN_TARGET_ABS_PATH
ln -s /usr/local/connectaddin
ln -s /usr/local/digest.s

To explain the commands you are going to extract the deb file that gives you two archives that we care about

data.tar.gz which is the two files and control.tar.gz

you extract data.tar.gz to the right place ( it places the files in /usr/local , bonus points to adobe for not using the correct path of /usr/local/bin )

if you extraced the control.tar.gz you would find three files which contain the installation scripts. The relevent parts are included above.

If you need an RPM file it is easy enough to build one from these commands. Prehaps you can walk across the office to the people to package the flash-player rpms and have then instruct you on how to do it.

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Anonymous

Dan. from your perspective and from the customer view I totally understand and agree it should be easy to do.

However, it is about resources assigned, customer demand for this option, tech support folks trained on this, call center folks trained and documentation created/maintained. So, it is a lot more than what you describe. It really is a matter of priorities and customer demand. I'll pass your request on to management.

I wish it was as easy as asking the Flash Player team to do this. We, on the Connect side of the busieness, are like many other "users" of the Flash Player technology and reside in different divisions and it is not so easy to do as you say. Like most software companies, each division has their own priorities and funding. I share your frustration.

I do not work in development and my office is in my home office outside DC. The developers are in California, India and elsewhere around the world literally. So, I would not know who to hand the request to! :-)

I will send this to product management with my recommendations that we do this. That's the best I can do!

I know that Red Hat would love us to do that so you may be on to something and your comments are helpful.

Thanks

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Marty_Criswell

Participant

I agree. I am running SUSE and would like to install the add-in so that I can use the colledge's Connect server with full capabilities. We support 2 distros SUSE and Ubuntu.

Marty Criswell
Computer Support Manager
4022c Throckmorton PSC
Kansas State University
Manhattan Ks 66506

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Anonymous

Adobe Connect Add-in is focussed on the main operating systems that people would use for conducting meetings. Surveys tell us Windows, Mac and Ubuntu are the desktop OS platforms with the largest share and that is where the investment dollars are focussed. I've not heard of any plans to expand the options to include SuSe or RedHat to date. It's a matter of resources and support for each platform. As the market numbers and customer requests arrive for this then product teams make decisions accordingly. I'll pass on these requests.

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JakeEng

Participant

Many commercial and engineering companies use an OS based on RPMs. If you wish to engage with these DEB is unlikely to help.

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Anonymous

Here are the supported items for Linux:

Presenter/Hosts: Ubuntu 10

Attendees: Ubuntu10; Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 4.x, 5.x; Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.x

Mozilla Firefox 2x or 3x

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for all users (hosts, presenters, participants, and administrators)

I've not heard of any change to add Red Hat as a Host Add-in. It all depends on how many customers ask for that as an option. I've not had any of my government customers ask and none of them are running Red Hat as a desktop OS...they run Mac or Windows. But I am sure there are exceptions but the host add-in is developed for the largest customer audience and always subject to additions. A host can run a meeting if they are willing to forgo advanced audio options, file sharing and desktop sharing. Other options are to run Ubuntu in a virtualized manner on Red Hat...not fabulous but it works when there is not other option.

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Anonymous

Dear HeywardDrummond,

Thanks for your response,

I have not explained well, my purpose is to question whether there will be some version of the plugin packaged as RPM instead of only DEB, because there are many Linux distributions based on Red Hat, like Mandriva, Fedora, etc...

For this reason I am trying to convert the RPM to DEB...

Regards,

Ricardo Aquino

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