Installing tweetdeck on Fedora 12 and 11
!Update [Dec 18, 2009]: To install tweetdeck on Fedora 12, as my friend Bolesław Dawidowicz indicated, execute
‘rm -fr /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt/’ before the tweetdeck app is installed. In other words. just before step number 5, which is the last one. If you don’t this, the installer crashes.
It’s been almost a year that I’ve been using twitter and I have to admit that even though I was not convinced at the beginning, it has slowly grown on me over the last few months primarily due to the applications/plugins out there that made it easier to generate or follow twitter updates.
The first app I used was twitterfox which even though had limited functionality, allowed me to follow other people’s tweets. Since joining Infinispan, I’ve had to manage Infinispan’s twitter account as well as mine, so twitterfox couldn’t help much there. Besides, I wanted to know what people were saying about Infinispan and to do that, I needed to keep an eye on a live feed of Infinispan mentions on twitter.
A few weeks ago Thomas Heute showed me a pretty cool application called tweetdeck that runs on top Adobe AIR and it looked pretty promising: multiple account management, live search feeds in the screen…etc. This week, I finally got around to installing it on Fedora 11 but it wasn’t all that straightforward. Here are the steps:
- A warning before we start. If running Fedora 11, do not try installing it via the “Download now, it’s free” link in the tweetdeck site. In my particular case, whenever I tried to install it this way, I was getting an Error# 3003 and an SE linux security warning like this even though I had typed the root password correctly:
Summary:
SELinux is preventing rpm (unconfined_execmem_t) "transition" rpm_script_t.
Detailed Description:
SELinux denied access requested by rpm. It is not expected that this access is required by rpm and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is causing it to require additional access.
Allowing Access:
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can disable SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not recommended. Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package.
Additional Information:
...etc - So instead, download Adobe AIR manually
- Go to the directory where you downloaded Adobe AIR install file and execute:
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chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Download tweetdeck from this link. Don’t worry if there’s a newer version available in the site, because it will ask you to update as soon as it figures out there’s a newer version available.
- Finally, execute the Adobe AIR installer and select the downloaded .air file:
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sudo /usr/bin/Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer
That’s it! I’ve now been using it tweetdeck for a few days and it rocks! Although it’s Adobe and hence, closed source, tweetdeck is a million years ahead of any native twitter Linux app. As someone said on twitter, it also kicks Java Web Start’s arse big time!
Happy tweeting :)
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Thanks for this howto! I’m new to fedora and you helped me enormously. After installing I got a load of messages about this being one of the few OSes that doesn’t play nicely with AIR, but once I’d shut those messages up and restarted Tweetdeck all was well.
Again, thanks.
@jah, you’re welcome! I’m delighted to know that this helped you :)
I’d also like to thank you for this. I’m also new to Fedora and once I figured out I had to be logged as root, things went smoothly. Much appreciated!
thanx! I spent a lot of frustrating moments trying to install it from the tweetdeck web.
@Bam, joe74, you’re welcome :)
Just a note:
I needed some more packages in my F11 x86_64. For error:
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module”: libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Do:
$> yum install -y PackageKit-gtk-module.i586
After this I’m left with a standard “contact your administrator” page with no more error context.
Do:
$> yum install gtk2-devel.i586 nss.i586 libxml2.i586 libxml2-devel.i586 libxslt.i586 gnome-keyring.i586 rpm-devel.i586 ld-linux.so.2 libXt.so.6 xterm rpm-libs.i586 -y
Poor support in 64-bit. :) But works now; thanks for these instructions.
S,
ALR
References:
http://johnjianfang.blogspot.com/2009/08/install-air-on-fedora-11.html
http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/fedora-11-and-tweetdeck..html
Thanks Andrew for the extra tips. In general, support for 64 bit linux distros is more limited than 32 bit which is why I always install a 32 bit version, even if my workstation might be able to do 64 bit. Safes me a lot of hassle :)
how to update tweetdeck at fedora 12, because right now my tweetdeck can’t to connect with fb?
only my twitter account can connect with tweetdeck..
please can you help me…
thanks
@reto, no idea about tweetdeck and facebook, I haven’t tried that part of tweetdeck
Installing tweetdeck is still a problem for me on f12:(
./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin gives:
Error loading the runtime (/tmp/air.Vc2BmG/build/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied)
ps: Im logged in as su
Hmmm, that’s odd. I’ve never seen that error before. Can you try logging in as ’su -’ rather than ’su’?