Right Me Up

Adobe’s Flex Builder application is built upon the Eclipse framework, so naturally you would think that Adobe would have a full fledged Linux version of Flex Builder. Unfortunately, Linux users only get an alpha release at this point, but its better than nothing, for sure. Thankfully, its a piece of cake to set up in Ubuntu if you’ve already got Eclipse up and running.

1. If you don’t already have Eclipse installed, read up here. Once you have Eclipse running fine, continue on…
2. Download the Flex Builder for Linux public alpha .bin file from Adobe.
3. Make it executable and run the installer:

   $ sudo chmod +x flexbuilder_linux_install_a3_033108.bin
   $ sudo ./flexbuilder_linux_install_a3_033108.bin
   

4. Go through the install wizard, telling it where to install Flex Builder first, and then where your existing installation of Eclipse is. (*I got an error saying that I did not have write permissions on my Eclipse folder when I ran the installer without sudo the first time, so I ran it with sudo and all seems fine.)
5. If installation goes fine, you may be wondering, how do I launch Flex Builder? Just run the Adobe_Flex_builder.sh script in the directory where you chose to install Flex Builder.

   $ sudo ./Adobe_Flex_builder.sh
   

6. Good Luck!

Tags: eclipse, flex, flex builder, ubuntu

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