Run Twhirl on Your Asus eee PC in 5 Easy Steps

It’s easy to stay connected to the Twitterverse using your Asus eee PC running Linux. Here’s how to get twhirl, a popular Twitter client, installed in 5 easy steps.

1. Download Adobe Air for Linux.
2. Open a terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-t) and move the Adobe Air installer to a writable directory.
   

   /home/user> mv AdobeAIRInstaller.bin /var/tmp

3. Become super-user and set up your environment variables. 
   

   /home/user> sudo su
   asus-N/home/user> \
   > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/xandros/lib; \
   > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

4. Run the Adobe Air installer.
   

   asus-N/home/user> chmod u+x \
   > /var/tmp/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
   asus-N/home/user> /var/tmp/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

5. Download and install twhirl.

Enjoy!

March 11, 2009. Tech Tips.