Friday, July 9, 2010

Running Balsamiq on ArchLinux

Finally spent sometime to get balsamiq running on my archlinux today, after referencing this guide, these are the steps i've taken with the downloaded adobeair sdk:

# Unpacking the sdk:
sudo mkdir /opt/AIR-SDK
cd /opt/AIR-SDK
sudo tar jxvf <PATH_TO_DOWNLOADED_ADOBE_AIR_SDK>

# Unpacking the balsamiq package:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/AIR-apps/MockupsForDesktop
sudo unzip <PATH_TO_DOWNLOADED_BALSAMIQ_PKG>

But the above is not enough for my 64bit system, i need to pacman install the following as well:

sudo pacman -S lib32-gtk2 lib32-libxml2

And the very verbose command to launch balsamiq is:

export BALSAMIQ_DIR=/opt/AIR-apps/MockupsForDesktop
/opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl -nodebug ${BALSAMIQ_DIR}/META-INF/AIR/application.xml $BALSAMIQ_DIR

Of course, i can always throw in an alias (eg. balsamiq) to make everything short & sweet !!

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