Art Alexion on 10 Jul 2008 07:15:42 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] alien dmg?


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On Wednesday 09 July 2008 10:47:22 pm Chris Teachworth wrote:
> Michael Leone wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> 
wrote:
> >> Yet another unnecessary multimedia format....
> >>
> >> I want to use (repeatedly, or I wouldn't bother) a web site that uses
> >> Adobe Air.  The Air package is available for Win or Mac, not Linux..
>
> Did you know about the Alpha release for linux?
>
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
>
> It's not feature complete yet but it may work for you.


This is a great tip because the dmg2img site is down and every link I looked 
at pointed to the same expired domain.

Thanks.


>
> >> Is there a way to install or use this in gnome or KDE?  I find
> >> proprietary stuff tends to have few dependencies because they tend to
> >> distribute the static libraries that they need.  I google "alien dmg"
> >> and "linux alien dmg" and all I get are alien skins for Mac or an Alien
> >> Invasion game.
> >>
> >> Any ideas (other than running it in my vm?  I have IE4Lin installed so I
> >> might try the windows version under wine.
>
> I've heard people have had luck running it under wine though I haven't
> tried it myself yet.

The install would not run under wine.  This is pretty unusual.  Even programs 
that don't run well under wine usually seem to install OK.


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