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: