Download and play in ubuntu Anodyne alternative of Zelda

Anodyne, an amazing Zelda-esque action RPG, has just been released, and you can get in now as part of a promotion at The Pirate Bay.  Only problem is, it is an Adobe Air application.  This is bad on two levels; 1) Adobe Air was abondoned by Adobe quite some time ago, and 2) Adobe Air is a 32-bit application.  It’s not available from the Ubuntu Software Center, but as an installer from Adobe that requires quite a few i386 libraries.  So, let’s get it installed and play Anodyne!

First, get the game!

Download Anodyne

Now, let’s get Adobe Air in our home dir, and a nice little library installer.

wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

wget http://jeffhendricks.net/getlibs-all.deb



Next, let's make that Adobe Air installer executable and install getlibs.



chmod +x ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb



OK, we're halfway there.  Now we need to install round one of dependancies, and grab the libraries that are going to make this work.



sudo apt-get install libhal-storage1 libgnome-keyring0 lib32nss-mdns

sudo getlibs -l libhal-storage.so.1

sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0







This is going to install quite a few 32-bit libraries, so don't be alarmed if you have to scroll up & down to see them all.



Next, Adobe Air is going to be looking for a couple of libraries and not be able to find them.  To fix, we'll just create symlinks from them in the directory it is expecting to see them at.  Super simple.



sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0



Almost out of woods.  Let's install Adobe Air.



sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin



Cool beans!  Accept the license terms and move on!  You're now able to use the Adobe Air installer.  



Now, just show Adobe Air where you game is and it will be installed and you will be able to find it in the Dash, Gnome Menu, KDE Menu and so on.



Enjoy!