Comments on: Adobe Flex in Ubuntu: Develop, Compile and Run

By: sneb

sneb — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:07:53 +0000

Thank you for saving me the time to figure this out!!
Very easy to follow tutorial, and worked exactly as advertised on my Ubuntu.

By: AS3 in Linux – Part 2 - Yelostudio

AS3 in Linux – Part 2 - Yelostudio — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:37:11 +0000

[...] Any of those two syntaxes will allow you to compile SWFs from commandline by typing “mxmlc youFlexApp.mxml” instead of the full path each time (tip copy-pasted from there). [...]

By: AS3 in Linux – Part 2 - Yelostudio

AS3 in Linux – Part 2 - Yelostudio — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:37:11 +0000

[...] Any of those two syntaxes will allow you to compile SWFs from commandline by typing “mxmlc youFlexApp.mxml” instead of the full path each time (tip copy-pasted from there). [...]

By: AS3 in Linux - Yelostudio

AS3 in Linux - Yelostudio — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:35:54 +0000

[...] For the sake of exhaustivity (what a nice word), I will be listing all the previous solutions that I found, and finally tell ya what I finally did. Just a note before we begin; To avoid redundancy, I did not repeat it, but for any of the setups that involve Adobe Flex SDK, you will need the latest Java( sudo apt-get install java-package sun-java6-jdk). For more information about installing Java & Flex SDK, click here or there [...]

By: Gopal

Gopal — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:33:24 +0000

It is really nice and very helpful. Thanks for your time and quick help.

By: bsue

bsue — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:14:16 +0000

@Rodrigo try

sudo chmod 0755 flex-sdk/ -R

By: bsue

bsue — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:02:47 +0000

i run in the same problem:

“Unable to access jarfile /opt/flex-sdk/lib/mxmlc.jar”

and there was no mxmlc.jar file so i renamed the one from my language “mxmlc_de.jar” into “mxmlc.jar” but did not helped me. still getting the unable to access error.

can anyone help?

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:17:10 +0000

What about trace actions? is it possible to trace actions with this method?

By: Toly

Toly — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:18:24 +0000

@Rodrigo,

You can install “sun-java6-jdk” on Ubuntu 10.4 by adding these repos:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

I run Ubuntu 10.4, and:

$ sudo apt-cache search sun-java6-jdk
sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files)
sun-java6-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
sun-java6-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files)

/Toly

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:14:04 +0000

First of all, I see that this “howto” is a bit out of date. But I tried to follow it…

Everything was going fine, except that in the Ubuntu 10.04 don’t have sun-java6-jdk pkg to install (I use openjdk instead) and have it installed (openjdk-6-jdk, and some others pkgs)…
So, to make the changes in ~./bashrc file I supposed to replace this part:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
for this:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java

But when I tried to make the same .swf of the example, it failed and returned this message:
$ mxmlc flexTest.mxml
Unable to access jarfile /opt/flex-sdk/lib/mxmlc.jar

I think I’m using the same paths that you, and follow all steps, except that part of JAVA_HOME, about java 5, since I only installed here java 6 (again, I suppose that was an unnecessary step)…

Would be great for me if someone give me a little help…

Regards.