Saturday, 20 June 2009

Adobe Air - the killer app

Adobe Air nearly did for my computer. DON'T TOUCH IT. I installed it because I wanted to use Twhirl (a Twitter client). First it slowed the machine down, so that Textmaker suddenly took ages to launch (instead of about 3 seconds normally), the hard disk churned endlessly and Add/remove now claimed that there were no programs on my computer.

A kind person on Ubuntu-UK, Matthew Daubney, provided this:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-app-install

It worked. Whew!

2 comments:

  1. Which version of Adobe AIR runtime were you trying?

    ReplyDelete
  2. I was using the one Adobe provides on the Adobe Air website at first. Then it asked for an update to be installed, which I allowed. So it was the latest version.

    ReplyDelete