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I have Tweetdeck running on my iMac at work and I wanted to get it running on Ubuntu at Home so I thought I’d share with you just how I did that.

First you need Adobe AIR. Adobe seem to ‘get’ Linux more and more these days. To do that, go to the Adobe AIR website and download the Linux version (from here).

(Alternatively you can type wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin in the command line)

Save the file to your home directory (not the directory called ‘home’, but the one that is the name of our user, ie: home/goonanism/

You then need to make the file you downloaded executable and to do this you will need to use the ‘chmod‘ function on the command line:

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Then you will need to run the file as the root user on the command line:

sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Next you will need to download the Tweetdeck file from here. Make sure you download the Linux Version.

Adobe AIR should now be in your Applications Menu under accessories. So open the “Adobe AIR Application Installer” and select the file you wish to install (ie the Tweetdeck file you just downloaded).

Happy Tweeting.

(NB, thanks to this post for the help with installing AIR)