Installing Adobe Flex Builder for Linux on Arch Linux x64
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under free software
As you probably know if you are reading this, Adobe Labs has a Flex Builder alpha available for linux. Unfortunately, Flex builder for Linux is 32-bit so running it on Arch Linux or any other 64-bit Linux distro requires 32-bit versions of the JRE, Eclipse, and Firefox. Thankfully, you can find the JRE and Firefox on the AUR (Arch User Repository). The easiest way to install packages from the AUR is with yaourt yaourt. Yaourt is a wrapper for pacman. It works just like pacman but “it adds seamless access to the AUR”. The name is awkward but that’s why God created the alias command. If it bothers you that much (I don’t see any other reason not to use it), you can use the AUR User Guidelines to install it with pacman. I used Yaourt and these are the steps I followed:
- First we need the 32-bit Java Runtime Environment. Install bin32-jre from the AUR.
$ yaourt -S bin32-jre - Do the same for firefox32.
$ yaourt -S firefox32 - Download one of the eclipse europa packages and extract it to the location you would like eclipse to be installed. I extracted it to /opt/eclipse32. Now don’t go getting a newer version. As of this writing Flex builder for Linux does not work with newer versions of Eclipse.
- In your eclipse directory (the folder you just extracted), edit eclipse.ini and add the following line after the org.eclipse.platform line.
-vm /opt/bin32-jre/ - In the same folder, create a file called eclipse.sh. Enter the following. If you have used different directories, then be sure to change these to your own.
- Now source the file to make sure that eclipse works and to set up the environment for the Flex Builder installer.
$ source eclipse.sh - Download run the Flex Builder for Linux installer. I installed Flex Builder at /opt/Flex. If you install it somewhere different, be sure to update the eclipse.sh you created.
$ sh flexbuilder_linux_install_a5_112409.bin - Copy the libflashplayer.so from the Flex installation to your firefox32 plugins folder.
$ cp /opt/Flex/Player/linux/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /opt/firefox32/plugins/ - Edit Adobe_Flex_builder.sh in the Flex Builder directory. At the very bottom, change eclipse to eclipse.sh.
"${ECLIPSE_LOCATION}"/eclipse.sh -vmargs -Xmx512M
Now you can run /opt/Flex/Adobe_Flex_builder.sh to start Flex Builder for Linux! I think this and SWFTools are the best Flash authoring options that we’ll have on Linux for a while to come. So if you’re waiting for a better solution from Adobe, don’t hold your breath. It is quite miraculous that Adobe actually went through the effort. If only they were willing to finish the job!
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