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1Feb/10

Howto: Install TweetDeck on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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This is one of the best social networking application I've found out there, not only is it functional and stylish, but it's cross-platform as it's an Adobe Air application and it's really easy to install!

Note: If you don't have Adobe Air installed please follow this guide first and then return to here.

Step 1
Go to tweetdeck.com and click the yellow download button.

1Feb/10

Howto: Install Adobe Air on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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There are some really great adobe air applications out there especially one revolving around social networks such as twitter, facebook, friendfeed. This is a pretty easy install and I'm going to show you how to do it via the command line because it's very quick to do.

Step 1
Download adobe air here and save it to somewhere you can find it like the /Downloads folder.

Step 2
Open up a Terminal window under the Applications->Accessories menu and navigate to the folder you download adobe air to, in my case it was the /Downloads folder: