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orschiro

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[Request] Prezi Desktop [partly solved]

Hello,

Is somebody interest in making a PKGBUILD for Prezi Desktop?

It is based on Adobe AIR and thus should be running on Arch. The Wiki describes the steps to install an Adobe AIR package as follows:

Installing an AIR Application

Download the application, and unzip it to /opt/airapps/<appname>. To run it you can use the command

$ /opt/adobe-air-sdk/bin/adl -nodebug /opt/airapps/<Application name>/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/airapps/<Application name>/

Making it executable

You can also make an executable by creating a file in /usr/bin:

#! /bin/sh
/opt/adobe-air-sdk/bin/adl -nodebug /opt/airapps/wimp/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/airapps/wimp/

The app might need parameters (voddler) so then the script can look like:

#! /bin/sh
/opt/adobe-air-sdk/bin/adl -nodebug /opt/airapps/wimp/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/airapps/wimp/ -- $1 $2 $3 $4

Then chmod the file so that it can execute:

$ chmod +x filename

Now you have installed an application in AIR. Yes it is this silly
Removing the application

Delete the application folder in /opt/airapps. Also delete the executable if you created one.

I would very much appreciate it.

Regards,

Robert

Last edited by orschiro (2012-12-12 00:03:22)

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Re: [Request] Prezi Desktop [partly solved]

Unfortunately with version 4.x Prezi Desktop is no longer supported on Linux since Adobe Air is no longer supported for Linux by Adobe. Thus, I could not manage to get the version 4.x working which is provided as an .exe file.

Nonetheless I created a PKGBUILD for the latest 3.091 version available for Adobe Air.

So far it is working great but I appreciate any feedback on the PKGBUILD.

Regards

Robert

Last edited by orschiro (2012-12-12 00:02:58)

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Re: [Request] Prezi Desktop [partly solved]

I cheered to soon. Yet it is not possible to insert local images. Prezi stops at "Downloading...". I guess it cannot locate the file in the file system.

In contrast, downloading files from the Internet works well.

Might this be related to Adobe AIR?

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Re: [Request] Prezi Desktop [partly solved]

Small approaches. I made Prezi Desktop 4 compatible. What I did is described here.

Both packages are now available on AUR:

* Prezi Desktop 3.091
* Prezi Desktop 4

Feel free to test them. I am pretty sure not everything is working.

Regards

Last edited by orschiro (2013-03-12 12:55:52)

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