Phillip Hodges

This is more of an aide-mémoire for me than a public guide. If it is helpful for other people then I am happy to make it available. If anyone has any comments or suggestion please contact me.

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• First install the ‘Adobe Flash Player plug-in’, through the ‘Software Centre’ (alternatively it can be done from the command line if you like)…

• Download the Debug Flash Player:

$ cd ~/Downloads/
$ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_plugin_debug.tar.gz

• Extract the files:

$ tar -xzvf flashplayer_10_plugin_debug.tar.gz

• Copy ‘libflashplayer.so’ to the Flex SDK folder:

$ sudo mv libflashplayer.so /opt/flex/runtimes/libflashplayer.debug.so

• Update alternatives reference:

$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so firefox-flashplugin /opt/flex/runtimes/libflashplayer.debug.so 60

• (optional) Check alternatives reference:

$ update-alternatives --display firefox-flashplugin
firefox-flashplugin - auto mode
  link currently points to /opt/flex/runtimes/libflashplayer.debug.so
/opt/flex/runtimes/libflashplayer.debug.so - priority 60
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so - priority 50
Current 'best' version is '/opt/flex/runtimes/libflashplayer.debug.so'.

• Restart Firefox and type ‘about:plugins’ into the address bar to check the plug-in is loaded.

This is more of an aide-mémoire for me than a public guide. If it is helpful for other people then I am happy to make it available. If anyone has any comments or suggestion please contact me.

Requirements

• The Flex SDK (build 4.5.1.21328 at the time of writing)

• Java (version 6 at the time of writing)

Installation

• If it isn’t already installed we need Java. Open up a terminal window and type the following:

$ sudo apt-get install java-package sun-java6-jdk

This may take a few minutes, plus you will have to agree to the license.

• Download the Flex SDK (see link above) and save it to your Download folder.

$ cd ~/Downloads/
$ wget http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flex/sdk/builds/flex4.5/flex_sdk_4.5.1.21328.zip

• Create a folder to copy the files to:

$ sudo mkdir /opt/flex

• Unzip the Flex SDK files:

$ cd ~/Downloads/
$ unzip flex_sdk_4.5.1.21328.zip -d flextmp

• Copy extracted files to final resting place:

$ sudo mv flextmp/* /opt/flex/

• Add Flex compiler path to “~/.bashrc”:

$ gedit ~/.bashrc

And add the following to the bottom of the file:

export PATH=/opt/flex/bin:$PATH

• That should be it. To test just call the compiler (after closing any open terminals):

$ mxmlc -help