How to install Titanium an Open source Adobe Air in Ubuntu

During my Engineering days i was very much passionate developing mobile app but now working on web development with Rails . Appcelerator Titanium tool provides the bridging gap between my passion and profession .

Titanium helps Web developers to create Mobile and Desktop applications ,Titanium is an Open source Adobe AIR . Using titanium one can develop Application for Desktop ,Iphone and Android platforms .

Being an Open source enthusiastic the following guide will help you through installation of Titanium on Ubuntu 8.04

Step 1 : Go to Appcelerator download page click here download the tar file .

Step 2 : Extract the tar file

$ tar xvf path/to/Titanium/.tgz

Step 3 : Provide the permission to the extracted folder
Extract the tar file

 $ chmod 777  path/to/Titanium/folder

Step 4 : Change to root , this avoids Gthread error which occurs while installing it through normal user , Change the current user to root with the following commands

 $ sudo -i

Step 5 : Change directory to the extracted Titanium folder

 $ cd path/to/Titanium/folder/

Step 6 : Run the Titanium developer file make sure u have the execution permission

  path/to/Titanium/folder/$ ./Titanium\ Developer

It will download the necessary files and install Titanium tool on ubuntu . Just play with it .Hope this helps !

In upcoming posts i will be updating more on working with Titanium and Ruby on Rails , Converting your web app to Desktop and Mobile Application.

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