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Re:The ultimate cross platform language by watty on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:42AM (#2840707)
Flex/Air is probably as close as it will ever get to being write once/run everywhere.
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Re:The ultimate cross platform language by Auguste on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @08:06AM (#2840778)
As far as I can tell, Air is designed to only run on Linux systems with the Apt, RPM or YUM package managers. I had tried to set it up on Slackware using some workarounds (see http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Adobe_AIR_Application_Instal...), but never got it to work. The .bin installer would just produce cryptic error messages and fail.

I did succeed in installing Air by using rpm2tgz on the RPM package, but installing an Air application still fails.

Am I the only one with this experience?

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