Spaz will apparently not be installed after booting machine
So, I'm using Linux Mint 9 after a long, long story involving Windows 7 and my Acer Aspire 7741Z-5731. And I was looking for a good twitter client after dealing with Tweetdeck and Twhirl. Some had suggested Spaz because it ran on all three of the platforms through Adobe Air.
Yesterday (at the time of this writing), I had shut down my machine to go rest for a bit before a big evening. I came home, turned on my machine and when I went to double click the Spaz icon, the program said it couldn't be found/wasn't installed. I couldn't find it in the start button-like menu. So I had to go into the Synaptic manager to remove it, then reinstall it. After I did that, I'd also be told by Mint I'd have to update Adobe Air.
That also happened to me this morning as well, all of the same above.
I haven't had that problem in Tweetdeck, Twhirl or Seemsic and I can't figure out what's going on.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Ed Finkler on 30 Jan, 2011 11:58 PM
First: this sounds like something specific to your machine. I've never
had a report like this on Linux installs. My guess is that there's
something different about Min than other distros, or something that's
gotten slightly hosed with your Spaz or AIR install.
One thing that differs with Spaz is that it's a JavaScript/HTML
application, rather than a Flash application like the other apps you
mention. Anecdotally, this sometimes means it will not work as well on
Linux installs as Flash-based apps. Why? I'd guess because Adobe
doesn't test it as much.
Because I don't run Mint, I'm not going to be much help. I do know
that many people use Spaz fine on Ubuntu installs, and I believe Mint
is based on Ubuntu.
I will ask for Spaz users running Mint if they can help.
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3 Posted by loug28 on 31 Jan, 2011 12:12 AM
Yes. Mint for the most part is a rebranding of Ubuntu. There are differences, such as the inclusion of MP3 codecs and Flash pre-installed in Mint.
My machine is a 64-bit machine but I'm running 32-bit OS so I could install Adobe Air. All I know is I install Spaz, when it first starts up will say there's an update so install it and that's when I get that I need to install an update for Air as well. After shutting down my machine, I'll come back and get back on, go to open Spaz so I can have a twitter client when I don't need the browser open and I'll get the error. If I had the exact error, I'd post it here.
And then my first post applies from there.
4 Posted by aquinn on 31 Jan, 2011 12:30 AM
I've had something similar happen on my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. Almost every recent apt-get update has contained an update to the adobeair package. I usually don't install it because updating adobeair breaks Spaz and requires a reinstall (and then Spaz has to update). Weirdly not too many updates to adobeair on my laptop which runs the latest Ubuntu 10.10 and no problems there.
5 Posted by W^L+ on 31 Jan, 2011 08:12 PM
I don't use Adobe AIR any more (or any products that depend on it), but ripping it out and reinstalling AIR often solves problems ... except for AIR's excessive resource consumption. The solution to that is dumping AIR completely.
In other words, I suggest you completely remove AIR and every application that is based on AIR, then go to Adobe's site and reinstall it. Then reinstall Spaz Desktop. That may be all you need.
Kubuntu / Mint KDE / Crunchbang / Fedora / Gentoo / Sabayon (all 64-bits except Gentoo) user who was frustrated by AIR's extremely high RAM and CPU usage on every Linux machine.
6 Posted by Colin Mitchell on 02 Feb, 2011 02:37 PM
It looks like Canonical is providing an AIR deb, which is causing all these problems. After running an apt update, I was experiencing this same issue. I've rolled it back and now I think I'm okay, as long as I ignore the update. It appears to be a significantly older version of AIR.
7 Posted by Colin Mitchell on 25 Feb, 2011 04:21 PM
For anyone who ends up on this somehow, and is having the problem I mentioned with Ubuntu earlier, you can use this PPA to get AIR:
http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Super_OS_repository
If you already have AIR installed, you'll need to force it to use the version from this PPA by doing Package > Force Version in synaptic.
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