Posts Tagged ‘64-bit’

64-bit Lightning 1.0pre builds for Linux

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Update: An official 64-bit build of of Lightning 1.0 beta1 is now available.

Ever since I switched to 64-bit Linux, I’ve been looking around for up-to-date 1.0pre builds of the Lightning calendar extension for my Thunderbird 3 mail client, as Mozilla for some reason does not provide 64-bit builds. For a time I was using a build from zaera-holo.net, but it was never updated and the site now appears to be down. Finally, from a comment on the Lightning AMO page, I found a new build from Friday, which appears to work well. Hope this helps others out as well.

If anyone finds a more regularly-updated channel, please let me know.

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Adobe AIR on 64-bit Linux

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Was installing AIR last night on my nice new Studio XPS 13 laptop, recoiling in horror at Adobe’s workaround installation instructions for 64-bit Linux, when I found these simple instructions:

Install Adobe AIR Linux 1.5 on 64-bit Linux distributions

So Adobe has this knowledge base article — Install Adobe AIR Linux 1.5 on 64-bit Linux distributions — to describe how to install Adobe Air on 64 bit linux systems. Do yourself a favor — just install wine from the standard repositories, and then execute the last line in the instructions:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32

Wine already sets up a complete 32bit compatible environment, so you
don’t have to worry about manually breaking out shared libraries.

Much easier.

Courtesy of the MC Studios blog.

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