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Installing Flex 2 SDK on Ubuntu

Asked by Dave

I am trying to install Adobe's Flex 2 SDK package on my computer. The Adobe download button says that it is for all platform's. However when I unzip the package and try to run the exe's the debug flash player for example I get an error in my terminal window informing me that there is no suitable interpreter. I think that these exes are designed to run under windows despite the claim that the download is multi platform. I know that some people must be using this SDK under Linux, and would appreciate any help on this matter.

Many thanks

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Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#1

Yes exes are by definition windows executables. However you can often use them under linux using wine.
(Check: http://www.winehq.org/, install through synaptic.)

I've download from here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/downloads/, and most exes seem to be accompanied by linux shell scripts (no extension). To run this you need to first mark them as executable (Right Click-->Properties-->Permissions-->Allow executing file as program). Then you can simply double click, but most probably you'll want to learn to use terminal, For a starter try these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommandlineHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal?action=show&redirect=BasicCommands

Two useful things i think are missing there:
To run a program in the current directory prefix it with: ./
To make a program executable do: chmod u+x <pragram's name>

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