If you install Adobe Air 2 on an amd64 ubuntu 10.04 (or any other debian based amd64) , you’ll get some problems.
Some nice guys already wrote something about this problem, like Jeremy Wilkins .
See his post there: http://jerwilkins.posterous.com/installing-latest-adobe-air-on-ubuntu-lucid-1
Now, what they will teach you is to foget about the dpkg / apt way of installing it and it’s a pitty. Adobe made a good work of it, providing dpkg way of deinstalling applications and so.
Here is how to deal with this architecture issue.
Download the .deb package from Adobe:
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Extract control.tar.gz from the package, uncompress, extract « control » file and remove it from the tar archive:
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Remplace the architecture information in the control file (i386 => all)
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Put back control file in tar archive, compress it, and put it back into the .deb package
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That’s it. Package’s now compatible with any architecture and won’t cause any more trouble :)
It was all perfect,
Thank you,
Luca (amd64 user!)
Hmm, one install of BBC iPlayer later, ignore my comment earlier about –force-install (as Jer Wilkins’s page mentions :)
I found I had to futz with permissions in /opt after the iplayer install:
$ sudo find « /opt/BBC iPlayer Desktop » -exec chmod a+rX {} \;