Problem installing AdobeAIR

Asked by Catriona Rooney

I have ubuntu 9.04 and I am trying to install Adobe AIR in order to use BBC iPlayer. I believe I have met all the system & software requirements but when I try to install AdobeAIR using Applications>Accessories>Terminal it fails to instalI properly and I am told there are unmet depedencies, in particular that is a conflict between 'winbind' and 'winbind4'. Sure enough, when I go into system>administration>synaptic package manager installing 'winbind' uninstalls 'winbind4' and vice versa. Terminal also says there are broken packages. Am I doing something wrong or is this a software problem? Or is there some other reason Adobe AIR will not install properly? I'm still a bit new to all of this.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You want to run:

cd ~; sudo apt-get -f install; wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin; chmod +x ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin; ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

This will install adobe air for you

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Catriona Rooney (catriona-rooney) said :
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Thank you. This worked straight away.