Image via CrunchBaseDon’t worry if it is already not installed, any application you try to install will automatically do it for you or at least ask you to have it installed.
Now the question is how do you uninstall Adobe Air Applications. Uninstalling air applications involve different steps on different OS.
Removing Air Apps on Ubuntu (Linux):
- Download the application in question again and save the file on your desktop.
- Go to Applications ->Accessories ->’Adobe Air Application Installer’ and browse to the file you downloaded.
- On the prompt screen, select uninstall.
- That’s it. The application will be removed.
- Go to ‘Applications -> Add/Remove Programs’ and search for the program name you are planning to remove. e.g. Friendfeed, TweetDeck etc.
- Just un-check the box for the application in question.
- Hit Apply and confirm.
- That’s it. The application will be removed the way any other application on Linux is removed. Cool huh…
- UPDATE: Starting Ubuntu 9.10 onwards, you can uninstall Adobe Air applications from Ubuntu Software Center itself. No need to search for package or anything.
- Hit the terminal.
- Enter ‘sudo dpkg -S /opt/*’ (without quotes).
- You will get an output like this:
adobeair1.0: /opt/Adobe AIR
boxee: /opt/boxee
app.destroyflickr.f242b970c206039aa6d597ec43895e3dd9c3cfe0.1: /opt/DestroyFlickr
app.destroytwitter.23ca2f9b070e2fb8c4472f982f88b1a471f11ae2.1: /opt/DestroyTwitter
com.friendfeed.friendfeed.e15dd0e93fae91f55000c2534280f7d2e075d241.1: /opt/FriendFeed
picasa: /opt/google
com.seesmic.desktop.client.d89f32799270693bef34aaa36e9b2632b59240fa.1: /opt/Seesmic Desktop
com.nyt.timesreader.78c54164786ade80cb31e1c5d95607d0938c987a.1: /opt/Times Reader
tweetdeckfast.f9107117265db7542c1a806c8db837742ce14c21.1: /opt/TweetDeck - Enter ‘sudo dpkg -P tweetdeckfast.f9107117265db7542c1a806c8db837742ce14c21.1′ for example to uninstall TweetDeck.
- You will see the output like this:
(Reading database … 117955 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tweetdeckfast.f9107117265db7542c1a806c8db837742ce14c21.1 … - That’s it. Any application can be uninstalled by copy and pasting the required location from the output received in step 3.
A little explanation about the commands I used is mentioned below:
- dpkg: provides the information about applications. (Debian Package)
- /opt/*: provides information about all applications in ‘opt’ directory.
- Enter ‘dpkg –help’ in the terminal to get complete list of commands you can use related to packages installed on your Linux machine.
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Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Nice article at Knowliz: "How to Uninstall Adobe Air Applications on Ubuntu?" http://bit.ly/7jkSZf Why is it not so obvious though?
Hi, None of those worked for me. I don't know where the file I downloaded is – I probably deleted it because I thought it was just the installer file, and it was no longer required.
The program doesn't show up in Add/Remove. And dpkg doesn't produce an output, it just sits there until I hit Ctrl+C. Any idea what I've done wrong?
Hi Matt,
If you are still on 9.04 or earlier, then you can download the install file again from the relevant site again and then follow Method 1 or 3. If you are using 9.10 then just search in Ubuntu Software Center with the package name and uninstall.
Hope that helps…Let me know if you still face any issue.
Thanks…
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I just used the geek way to uninstall tweetdeck. I want to use it but somehow it does not get installed correctly. I will try the .bin file for adobe air 2.0 beta.
Thanks for your post, it really helped
Bon à savoir: Désinstaller une application Adobe Air: http://is.gd/9UWRL #geek
thank you sir!
Thanks!
Tried to find this info on Adobe without success. The second solution worked pretty fine.
- Ray
Had to use the “Geek Way” with jolicloud. worked fine. thanks.
Had to use the “Geek Way” with jolicloud. worked fine. thanks.
Thanks for your sharing! It's really helpful!
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thanks for your post, im moving forward to linux. nice OS..
On Mac OS X I followed the: Air Installer -> Air app -> Uninstall procedure, and worked smoothly.