Set up Ubuntu 64 Bit for RIA Flex Development

Step1: Install Flash 10 On

Adobe has released Flash 10. The plugin is of better quality than Flash 9. I will add this
manual install section for those that would like to do it themselves. I would only use the
instructions on Hardy, though Gutsy might work.
Click Here to download Getlibs
Click Here to get Flash 10
Save the files to your desktop, if you save files to a different location, drag them to your
desktop.

First
1. Open a terminal and execute the following commands for removal of old plugins. Some
may error out saying they cant find a file, that's ok. We just want to make sure they are
removed if they exist.
Code:
sudo apt-get -y purge nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get -y purge mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get -y purge swfdec-mozilla
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Next we install new stuff.

Code:
cd ~/Desktop
sudo apt-get -y install nspluginwrapper
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
sudo getlibs -p libcurl3
sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d

We install the flash plugin

Code:
tar -xzvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
install_flash_player_10_linux
sudo mv -f ~/Desktop/install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

We wrap it and link it.

Code:
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
libflashplayer.so
 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

Then restart your browser.

If flash does not work
DO Not install other scripts. Run all the commands above again. Other scripts will only
make things worse.
DO Not try other methods, these may leave files in place that will cause problems.
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Step2: Install Flex SDK and FlexBean Plugin

Download Flex SDK from Adobe site. The version I downloaded was 3.3.0.4852. Unzip the
tar ball to any location on your machine.

Installed NetBeans 6.5.1 and download FlexBean . To install FlexBean plugin, unzip it first,
then NetBeans->Tools->Plugins, click "Downloaded" Tab, and click "Add Plugins" button to
open the "Add Plugins" dialog, then browse to the unzipped org-netbeans-module-
flexbean-1.1.1.nbm, click OK to save. Finally click "Install" to install the FlexBean plugin.

Next, set the Flex SDK from NetBeans menu bar: "Toos"->"Flex Platforms". A dialog titled
"Flex Platforms" will pop up; click "Add Platform..." to browse to the Flex SDK folder, which
is where the Flex SDK tar ball was extracted to.

Step3: Import Existing Flex Projects

Because currently FlexBean does not have import from existing source feature, some tricks
are requested to import an existing Flex project. First, create a new Flex Application by
"File"->"New Project", select "Flex Application", enter any project name say "MyFlexApp"
and click OK. Now you have a project that contains one source file, Main.mxml under
<PROJECT_PATH_PREFIX>/MyFlexApp/src

To link the existing source directory to MyFlexApp project, cd to where MyFlexApp project is
stored. There is a "src/" directory
cd <PROJECT_PATH_PREFIX>/MyFlexApp
rm -f -r src
ln -s <EXISTING_SOURCE_DIR> src
cd src
ln -s <EXISTING_MAIN_MXML> Main.mxml

cd ~/netbeanprojects/FlexQosApp
rm -f -r src
ln -s ~/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/QosExplorer.war/com src
ln -s ~/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/QosExplorer.war/QosMain.mxml
Main.mxml

Now if you look under the src directory again, you will see the existing source code there.

Step4: Build Flex Project

Ｉused the following command to build my project's main mxml file, QosMain.mxml. Replace
the file name and the library path to fit your setting.

mxmlc QosMain.mxml -compiler.include-libraries+=~/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/

deploy/QosExplorer.war/WEB-INF/flex/user_classes/

To compile from NetBeans IDE. First set the external library to include that in ~/dev/
jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/QosExplorer.war/WEB-INF/flex/user_classes by
selecting "QosFlexApp" project from Project Panel, and right click to select "Property". On
left "Categories" panel of "Property" dialog, select "Libraries", then under "Components"
section, click "External" tab, and then click "Add Ext" button to browse to the location of the
external swc libraries. Now you should be ready to build and run from IDE.