Flash/Flex Development on Scientific Linux
If you want to use a linux box for testing/developing AS3/Flex apps, you are likely to come across some obstacles:
- Flash Builder is no longer supported on Linux. The last available version is FB3.
(ok, there’s the barely legal FB4Linux, too….) - Air Development is no longer supported on Linux. Air 2.7 SDK is only available for Mac and Windows:
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/sdk/
- Air runtime is no longer developed for Linux.
http://blogs.adobe.com/open/2011/06/focusing-on-the-next-linux-client.html - the ADL file that ships with the Flex 4.5 SDK is built for Mac. The Linux Air package is built for Flex 4.0.
- …and so on.
That said, it is possible to set up a stable development environment on Linux.
FDT is still supported on Linux and the Flex 4.5 SDK + Air 2.6 SDK can be tweaked to work on linux.
Check out the following 2 articles about setting up the SDKs and the dev tools on Scientific Linux:
