Install TweetDeck on Slackware 13.1 with Xfce

Apparently, installing TweetDeck which is based on Adobe Air is not as straightforward as I thought so.

Download Adobe AIR SDK from Adobe.
Create a directory for the SDK. For example, I use
/opt/air-sdk
Unpack the downloaded file there.
Create another directory to store your AIR apps, I use
/opt/air-apps
Download TweetDeck from here. You need to manually download from there since you can’t install automatically from the browser.
Create a new directory for your TweetDeck in /opt/air-apps. I use
/opt/air-apps/tweetdeck
Move the downloaded TweetDeck file into that directory and use unzip command to unpack it.

You won’t have any problem if you’re running Gnome or KDE as the desktop manager. But if you’re using other than those two, you need to enable either GnomeKeyring (Gnome obviously) or Kwallet (KDE). For example, I use Xfce, so I choose to enable Kwallet from KDE. After installing all the necessary files, I need to be running Kwallet before I can start TweetDeck. Read all about it here.

Use this command to run it if you’re already using Gnome or KDE
/opt/air-sdk/bin/adl -nodebug /opt/air-apps/tweetdeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/air-apps/tweetdeck
If you’re using Xfce or something other than Gnome or KDE and you’re running Kwallet, use this bash script to run TweetDeck
#!/bin/bash
export KDE_FULL_SESSION=1
export KDE_SESSION_VERSION=4
/opt/air-sdk/bin/adl -nodebug /opt/air-apps/tweetdeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/air-apps/tweetdeck