Comments on: Installing the Adobe AIR SDK on a Mac

By: erik

erik — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:06:32 +0000

It appears that most SDK folders have . characters in their
name to identify their SDK version. If you don’t replace them with
for instance ‘underscores’ , it simply won’t work.

By: That Kid from Omaha

That Kid from Omaha — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:35:43 +0000

Hmmm.... sorry, I wish I did, but don't have a clue. You may want to reach out to Mike (from Adobe) over at http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/

If you find out, please feel free to post back here, in case others are stuck, too.

By: Stephen Coley

Stephen Coley — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:01:27 +0000

I tried setting the path initial, this didn't work, even though I know I set the path correctly. So I thought I would trouble shoot, and just navigate to the /bin from the Terminal. Once I was in the /bin, I “ls -al” to make sure adl and adt were in the directory. Once confirmed, I typed adt… It says the command is not found, so I tried adl, it also said the command was not found. Do you have any idea what my issue could be? I do have the all of the directories included in the download in the same directory as /bin.

By: MrBonze

MrBonze — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:57:04 +0000

Thank you! Been Googling for hours trying to find out how to do this! Just a note to avoid confusion that you have to replace the path 'airsdk', with the path where you have the air SDK installed.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:49:18 +0000

Hey All, I had a lot of trouble installing this too.. finally got it to work by adding the full path to my AIRSDK/bin directory. So, I put this:

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/bob/Applications/AIRSDK/bin

It worked for me… thought it might be helpful.

Also, Mike Chambers posted a link(4/17/08) on his blog to an updated edition of Pocket Guide. Check out his blog(www.mikechambers.com).

Direct Link to pdf:
http://onair.adobe.com/files/AIRforJSDevPocketGuide.pdf?sdid=CEYFA

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:49:18 +0000

Hey All, I had a lot of trouble installing this too.. finally got it to work by adding the full path to my AIRSDK/bin directory. So, I put this:

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/bob/Applications/AIRSDK/bin

It worked for me... thought it might be helpful.

Also, Mike Chambers posted a link(4/17/08) on his blog to an updated edition of Pocket Guide. Check out his blog(www.mikechambers.com).

Direct Link to pdf:
http://onair.adobe.com/files/AIRforJSDevPocketG...

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:23:40 +0000

I probably didn’t get as far as everyone else, I’m guessing it’s something minor.

I downloaded the ebook of the pocket guide to see if there was any additional help there too.

I’m running leopard. I didn’t have a .profile or a .bashrc file. So I typed touch .profile
perfect. I open it up in the TextMate and it is entirely BLANK.

So the step where I have to look for a line that is similar to “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin” doesn’t apply because I’m looking at an entirely blank file.

Any ideas?

Thanks — Chad

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:23:40 +0000

I probably didn't get as far as everyone else, I'm guessing it's something minor.

I downloaded the ebook of the pocket guide to see if there was any additional help there too.

I'm running leopard. I didn't have a .profile or a .bashrc file. So I typed touch .profile
perfect. I open it up in the TextMate and it is entirely BLANK.

So the step where I have to look for a line that is similar to "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin" doesn't apply because I'm looking at an entirely blank file.

Any ideas?

Thanks -- Chad

By: Robyn Tippins

Robyn Tippins — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:53:57 +0000

I can’t get it to install either. Wanted to run snitter. No way am I going through this many steps for that though.

By: Robyn Tippins

Robyn Tippins — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:53:57 +0000

I can’t get it to install either. Wanted to run snitter. No way am I going through this many steps for that though.

By: Ed Prue

Ed Prue — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:32:11 +0000

I solved my own problem. Just happened to be at Stacey’s in downtown S.F. on my lunch hour (heh heh – no, I wasn’t just there yesterday and the day before that…) flipping through the new O’Reilly pocket guide on AIR, and I stumbled on the fact that you have to be running OS X 10.4.8 or higher to install AIR. Too bad Adobe doesn’t plainly say so on the download site. Anyway, now I’m breathing in the AIR experience — beauty! Hopefully anyone else out there googling “Mac OS X AIR installer doesn’t work” – will find this now, instead of nothing.

By: Ed Prue

Ed Prue — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:32:11 +0000

By: micah

micah — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:24:03 +0000

Sorry, Ed. Don’t have a clue why that’s happening. It runs just fine on my machine.

By: micah

micah — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:24:03 +0000

Sorry, Ed. Don’t have a clue why that’s happening. It runs just fine on my machine.

By: Ed Prue

Ed Prue — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:51:44 +0000

I can’t even get the installer to run. I’m using the one from “air_b1_mac_061107.dmg” (currently on the Adobe web site as of 9/15/07.) It just blows up as soon as I double-click it, with “The application quit unexpectedly” dialog. So far, I haven’t been able to find any mentions via Google.

By: Ed Prue

Ed Prue — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:51:44 +0000

By: kab

kab — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:01:02 +0000

Hey Tom:

The Unix under the shiny aqua interface of Mac OS X is very Case sensitive. I think your PATH schould by

/Application/.. instead of /application/…

I hope it will work now for you.

By: kab

kab — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:01:02 +0000

Hey Tom:

The Unix under the shiny aqua interface of Mac OS X is very Case sensitive. I think your PATH schould by

/Application/.. instead of /application/...

I hope it will work now for you.

By: jr

jr — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:31:53 +0000

Hey Tom:

Looks like you don’t have the right path specified in your $PATH

Try changing “/applications/airsdk/bin” to “/tom/applications/airsdk/bin” and see if that works for you.

By: jr

jr — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:31:53 +0000

Hey Tom:

Looks like you don’t have the right path specified in your $PATH

Try changing “/applications/airsdk/bin” to “/tom/applications/airsdk/bin” and see if that works for you.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:29:58 +0000

Hey there,

Thanks for the extra info. I still can’t get this to work thought! No errors are thrown during the steps and when I do and echo $PATH I get,

MacPro:~ tom$ echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/applications/airsdk/bin

I’ve got the SDK in /tom/applications/airsdk. When I type adt I get

MacPro:~ tom$ adt
-bash: adt: command not found

Any advice?

Cheers,
Tom

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:29:58 +0000

Hey there,

Thanks for the extra info. I still can't get this to work thought! No errors are thrown during the steps and when I do and echo $PATH I get,

MacPro:~ tom$ echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/applications/airsdk/bin

I've got the SDK in /tom/applications/airsdk. When I type adt I get

MacPro:~ tom$ adt
-bash: adt: command not found

Any advice?

Cheers,
Tom

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