I love tweetdeck, so imagine my surprise when Adobe decided to not support AIR on linux anymore. So until today, I had still been using the native adobe air version of tweetdeck on linux. Yesterday though, tweetdeck would randomly lock up. Today, it wouldn’t post or anything so I set out to install the windows version on linux using wine. Its actually pretty damn easy and so far, no problems.
This is how you do it in 5 steps or less in ubuntu’ish linux:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wineOnce you make sure you have the most up to date version of wine, you need to download Tweetdeck from http://www.tweetdeck.com
It will be a .msi file eg. TweetDeck.msi
wine msiexec /i TweetDeck.msiWhen the installer starts, click on the install button then click finish. After it is installed, you can run it from the Wine menu if you use a bloaty desktop like kde/gnome or you can run this command:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Twitter/TweetDeck/TweetDeck.exeIf you use wbar like I do in fluxbox, then you can add these three lines to the config – which will also pipe all any wine errors to /dev/null:
i: ~/tweetdeck-icon.png
c: wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Twitter/TweetDeck/TweetDeck.exe 2> /dev/null
t: TweetDeckAnd here is the icon I use, so you can simply copy it to your home directory