This goes alongside some sources (linked in the post) and adds some notes that I found necessary. It just relates to installing Flex Builder on a 32bit operating system; for 64bit Linux, there is another article on this site.
- We need to create a clean environment. Only if you never had Eclipse 3.5 installed on your system, you can jump over this.
- rm -R ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.5.0_*/
(Omitting this can cause all Flex perspectives, editors and views to be “hidden” even though Flex Builder 3 alpha 5 for Linux is correctly installed. This happens if a previous failed / wrong installation caused this stuff to be hidden, as the directory deleted above then stores that configuration, seemingly.) - Delete your Eclipse 3.5 installation folder and your Flex Builder for Linux installation folder, if you have previous, failed installation attempts.
- rm -R ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.5.0_*/
- Install Eclipse 3.5 Galileo and Flex Builder for Linux alpha 5.
- Cure the “path=” issue: open the file {$ECLIPSE_3.5_DIR}/links/com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.linux.link and prepend the content with “path=”. Read more about that issue here.
- Apply James Ward’s ProblemManager patch (steps 2,3,4,5). A preliminary solution is to switch off warnings in the “project properties -> Flex compiler” settings. I have a more detailed description of the problem to solve here.
- Apply another patch (Stage 2: steps 5,6,7). The instructions there are for teh Flex Builder 3 alpha 4 build, so the stuff to remove is named differently. But you need NOT to rename the patch files with the new build ID.
- Update your Flex SDK to Flex 4 beta 2 SDK, and update AIR. Use the stage 3 instructions here and follow the “To use Flex 4 SDK” steps here.
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