Macromedia Flex for Linux



I’ve been running Macromedia Flex on Windows for the past few months. Tonight I decided to take the plunge and install Flex on my Linux box. I allotted about 2-3 hours to get Flex running on Fedora Core 3.

I figured that there would be a few tweaks necessary to get Flex running. I was overcome with joy when my installation took less than five minutes. I downloaded Flex 1.5 from Macromedia and ran the installer:

./flex-1.5.bin

I was prompted with a few questions about installation directory and what type of server I wanted to run. Since this is a dev machine then I decided to run the integrated JRun server. After the installation was complete I simply cd’ed to the installation directory and started the server:

/installdir/jrun4/bin/jrun -start default

That’s all there was to it and I was immediately able to hit the server and run the examples at:

http://localhost:8700/samples/

Now that I’m up and running I plan on posting a lot more information on Flex and its capabilities in the coming weeks. I have some Flash components that I’d like to integrate and I’ll post those as well.



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