{"id":165,"date":"2009-04-30T22:18:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T03:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-04-30T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T03:18:52","slug":"installing-adobe-air-and-tweetdeck-on-an-asus-eee-701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2009\/04\/installing-adobe-air-and-tweetdeck-on-an-asus-eee-701\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Adobe AIR and Tweetdeck on an Asus eee 701"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tweetdeck<\/a> is an Adobe AIR<\/a> application that is a twitter<\/a> client, and recently also a Facebook<\/a> client.<\/p>\n

My attempts to install Adobe AIR on the Asus eee 701 (running the default Xandros distro) were foiled several times in spite of following the instructions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download Adobe AIR<\/li>\n
  2. Make the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin file executable<\/li>\n
  3. Run the .bin file as a superuser<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I got a nice friendly fail message from the Adobe AIR installer every time.<\/p>\n

    I found a few relevant forum posts, e.g. Adobe Air Linux won’t install on Eee PC<\/a>, that suggested memory was an issue. Sure enough, running in Full Desktop Mode with 1440×900 screen resolution (on an external display), I only had about 90MB of 500MB free.<\/p>\n

    I restarted the eee in Easy Mode and then immediately ran AdobeAirInstaller.bin. Success! (I later found these same instructions on the eee user forums<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

    Installing Tweetdeck was trivial at that point: download the .air file, find it in the File Manager, and double-click it. However, when I ran it, it didn’t do<\/em> anything. At one point I got a message that I was running an unknown desktop, and that Tweetdeck required Gnome or KDE.<\/p>\n

    I restarted in Full Desktop Mode, and was surprised to find a Tweetdeck icon already on the desktop. I ran it and was prompted to use KWallet, a KDE password manager. I canceled out of that, and found that Tweetdeck opened, but still didn’t do<\/em> anything.<\/p>\n

    I tried again, activated the KWallet password manager, and then it worked! Tweetdeck prompted me for my twitter login, I additionally logged in to Facebook, and now I have a mean, lean, social networking machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tweetdeck is an Adobe AIR application that is a twitter client, and recently also a Facebook client. My attempts to install Adobe AIR on the Asus eee 701 (running the default Xandros distro) were foiled several times in spite of following the instructions: Download Adobe AIR Make the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin file executable Run the .bin file … Continue reading Installing Adobe AIR and Tweetdeck on an Asus eee 701<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,70,69,68,354],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adobe-air","tag-asus-eee","tag-facebook","tag-tweetdeck","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}