HOWTO: Adobe Air and Xdrive® Desktop Lite Under WINE in Ubuntu Gutsy

Wow, I was just experimenting with wine and I found out the new adobe air works flawlessly in Ubuntu with wine, it will probably work with other distro's but lets take a look how I set this up with Ubuntu w/Wine. Adobe Air applications are pretty sweet!

Xdrive® Desktop Lite install file (http://xdrive.com/downloads/)
Windows Beta3 installer for Adobe Air (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html)
WINE (I used 0.9.54)
Cant find adobe air?
wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/air_b3_win_121207.exe
OK. Go to your command line, get to the directory of the executable downloaded and do:
"wine air_b3_win_121207.exe
" (This is the filename that I downloaded off of the Adobe Labs site)





This will bring up the installer. Go through the prompts and it will say that it installed fine.





Now, we need to install the Xdrive® Desktop Lite client. To do this, we have to run the install air application executable located in the Adobe Air folder in your "C Drive"
/home//.wi
ne/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe AIR/Versions/

In this directory run the command:
wine "Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer.exe"





A dialog box will pop up letting you browse to select the xdrive .air install file.












Now you will be asked a few questions, simply click install!








Next you will be asked where to install and it will ask you if you want to save an icon on the desktop, select yes and then uncheck run after installer finishes.

Once it is installed you can double-click the "Xdrive Desktop Lite" icon on the desktop with a wine glass.






Once you run it this is how it will appear!














After you Login you can upload/download and copy/paste, add/remove folders in Xdrive :)







Here is more information on Xdrive® Desktop Lite from the official Xdrive Website
If you like this baby, check out these applications:
Google Analytics Air application here
Twitter App: Here
Here is hundreds more!
P.S. Please let me know how everything installed, and if you experimented with any other adobe air apps!

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garethj yea it seems that is 1 app that is problematic unfortunately, im going to take a look into it further
I was able to download the AIR 1.0 from http://get.adobe.com/air/ using Opera, selecting "Mask as Internet Explorer" as browser identification for the site.

Unfortunately I was interested in installing twhirl which failed as described by others.
It works great in my Hardy Heron 8.04 Beta.
Thanks a lot for this intresting howto.
Xdrive Desktop Lite also works fine with AIR for Linux. Wine is no longer necessary.

REZ
In case you have trouble installing the air application directly from http://xdrive.com/downloads/ (as I did), you can download the .air installer from here: http://public.xdrive.com/downloads/XdriveDesktopL...
hmm ... installed and working , ut it seems i cannot register with Xdrive .... the second page just wont let me to continue ... weird ..

Nice post
I downloaded xdrivedesktoplite.air file. now how do i install it?

Thanks, mumrah
1 reply · active 849 weeks ago
download and install adobe air from
http://get.adobe.com/air/
then, click on xdrivedesktoplite.air, if it doesn't open directly with adobe air, right clik on desktop client and open with adobe air
This was a great start for me to install Xdrive.but i could not install in this way for some strange reasons.anyways while searching i got a Adobe air version for Linux.adobe has different packages available on their site,however i have used the .bin format.
all you have to do is download your favorite package of adobe air and xdrive lite.install adobe air and one you have installed, open the installed Adobe air and point the downloaded xdrive lite package ...and boom you are all good to go.
if you face any problem installing adobe air from bin format just do a chmod +x adobeairfile.bin
and then ./adobeairfile.bin
i hope this will be helpful.
thanks

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