Monday, August 6, 2012

Pandora One App on Ubuntu 12.04

I had been wondering how to get the Pandora One desktop app to work on Ubuntu.  The problem I kept running into was getting Adobe Air to install on my 64-bit Ubuntu system.  Thanks to a helpful how-to over at Librarian Geek the problem is solved.  To install Adobe Air and Pandora on your 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 system run open a terminal and enter in the following commands.

Add the repository to your system:
sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"

Update and Install Flash & Reader(if desired)
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer acroread

Download Adobe Air:
wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin


Set the installer to executable:
sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Run the following for 64-bit systems:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

Or for 32-bit run:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

Run the Adobe Air installer:
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Install Pandora App:
Download the Pandora App here and run it to install. 

That should be it.  Enjoy Pandora on Ubuntu!

3 comments:

  1. Big ups! Worked like a charm! You rock!

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  2. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!you saved me so much trouble

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  3. Sweet.

    Now my big question is...how on earth do you figure out that the Adobe Air installer is looking for those .so files in those other directories?

    Thanks.
    --Tom

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