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Adobe Air 2.5.1 GLIBC_2.7 error

December 8th, 2010 | Linux

Today I’ve tried to run Balsamiq Mockups on CentOS 5 and it failed to start with the following message:

Error loading the runtime (/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources/libcurl.so))

My laptop is subscribed to Adobe’s YUM repository and adobeair has been upgraded to 2.5.X on October 25. The new adobeair package has libcurl.so linked to glibc version 2.7 (CentOS 5 is shipping glibc 2.5):

[root@silver ~]# grep adobeair /var/log/yum.log*
/var/log/yum.log:Jun 30 12:15:19 Updated: adobeair-2.0.2-12610.i386
/var/log/yum.log:Aug 10 22:43:35 Updated: adobeair.i386 2.0.3-13070
/var/log/yum.log:Oct 06 00:29:04 Updated: adobeair.i386 2.0.4-13090
/var/log/yum.log:Oct 25 21:58:50 Updated: adobeair.i386 2.5.0-16600
/var/log/yum.log:Nov 16 22:30:39 Updated: adobeair.i386 2.5.1-17730

To solve this issue I’ve downgraded adobeair to the latest working version.

I’ve removed adobeair 2.5.1 from my laptop:

[root@silver ~]# yum remove adobeair

I’ve downloaded and installed adobeair 2.0.4-13090 from Adobe:

http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.0.4/adobeair.i386.rpm

Some tweaks to Adobe’s repository settings (exclude=adobeair), disable adobeair updates untill Adobe will fix this issue:

# /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
exclude=adobeair

4 comments ↓

#1 satish on 01.03.11 at 11:23 am

Thank you.
That helped me dude.

#2 wilq on 02.18.11 at 5:44 am

thx!!! its hard to find old rpms for centos…

#3 Pete on 02.25.11 at 11:36 pm

This worked for installing Air, but when we try to install an Air application like Balsamiq, it acts like it installed but we never got the signed certificate message nor a “where do you want to install path” screen.

#4 Bernard Farrell on 04.14.11 at 6:19 pm

That’s going back to a MUCH earlier version of AIR. Have you got any information from Balsamiq (or Adobe) about this issue and when 2.5 might be available on CentOS? I wonder if this means that 2.5 will also have problems on other *nix systems.

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