I have made a new set of instructions for Installing Balsamiq Mockups on Ubuntu 13.10 because it it is slightly different from installing it on Ubuntu 13.04.
Step 1 – Download Adobe Air – http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin.
wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Step 2: Make the installer excutable.
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Step 3: Try running the installer.
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Step 4: If your computer is 64bit then you will get this error:
"error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
So, you will need to install the 32bit libs:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libnss3-1d:i386 libnspr4-0d:i386 lib32nss-mdns libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386
Step 5: Try running the installer again
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Step 6: You might get this error:
Sorry, an error has occurred. Adobe AIR could not be installed. Install either Gnome Keyring or KDE KWallet before installing Adobe AIR.
To fix this run the following command:
locate libgnome-keyring.so
I got (but you might get something different).
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
You will need to pass reference to these libs when running the installer.
sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
If this works for you then goto Step 7. If this doesn’t work then you could make symbolic links to the libs. For 64bit:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
For 32 bit:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
Finally – try running the installer again.
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Then remove the symbolic links:
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
Step 7 – Download Balsamiq
wget http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-desktop/MockupsForDesktop64bit.deb
Step 8 – Install Balasmiq
sudo dpkg -i MockupsForDesktop64bit.deb
Step 9 – Make a cup of tea and some mockups
Unfortunately this and many other similar methods didn’t work for me (fresh Ubuntu 13.10 with Gnome3). I managed to get AdobeAIR to *think* it was installed, as in, it would (sometimes) load up the install screen and it would state that “AdobeAIR” is already installed, however then when I attempted to install Balsamiq via the deb it said requirement AdobeAIR wasn’t met…
What did work was to simply install WINE and then ‘With Adobe Air bundled’ version provided at http://balsamiq.com/download/
Thanks for your feedback. I haven’t been able to try this on a computer with Gnome 3 installed myself. It would be interested to see if anyone else get this problem.
Same case as you. Do the wine emulation run smoothly for you? For me is a bit laggy.
It’s not laggy for me, but I just got a new machine (hence upgrade to 13.10) and everything is pretty quick…
Works fine for me ! Thanks !
Thanks a lot for this post! It helped a lot
Thanks..it worked
Works like a charm! Thank you very much!
P/S: comments posting through Facebook or G+ is not working for some reason here.
Thanks for letting me know facebook / google plus doesn’t work – I’ll look into it.
I had problems with step 4. After running “sudo apt-get update –fix-missing” and re-running step 4, it worked perfectly. Thanks heaps!!!
Woked here too ! (Ubuntu 13.10)
Works perfectly for me, thank you very much.
After installing the 32bit libs and trying to install AIR again, I get this error message:
/tmp/air.wCK2DP/setup: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Apparently
apt-get install lib32stdc++6
fixed it but am now stuck with the AIR installer not starting. Any suggestions why this might be? I have Ubuntu 13.10 with KDE running on top.
Found out the problem was with 13.10. Problem now resolved by installing quite a lot of stuff from Raring.
Could you give a little more detail please? I.e. what did you need to install?
Worked like a charm! Thanks.
Worked for me (Ubuntu 14.04). Thanks so much!