Listen people, all I want to do is run TweetDeck on my Linux build and not have to load any Adobe product like Air or whatever its called. I don’t want bullet ridden software on my server so do I have any other options?
Oh yes! yes you do! Okay so think of it. TweetDeck is already available on several mobile platforms including the iPhone and Android (not Windows 7 mobile because its junk), but its also part of Google Chrome which is probably the best decision twitter could have made and with very little API overhead – I’d say it was a good decision.
Now back to the question – Can I get TweetDeck on my Linux box? YES, and here is how. First do us a favor and point your browser to tweetdeck.com and perform the following steps so you can be up and running with TD in no time! Oh and by the way, Adobe air by Natty-partner is worthless.
- If you don’t already have Google Chrome from Linux, download the current stable release. At the time of this writing, we were at google_chrome_stable_current_i386.deb.
- Now side note – lets just ‘assume’ google is a trusted site right? Heck yeah it is – go ahead and allow the install to happen though the ‘software center’
- So Linux is completely secure, much like your iPhone and iPad but way more secure than your Windows OS, so as need you will probably be requested to ‘change software repository settings, you need to authenticate’. At this point, enter your root account and hope all is well on your corporate (or home) network.
- Now assuming your credentials are indeed correct you should see a prompt from Linux indicating you are ‘installing’ google chrome. If you do, pat yourself on the back because you are now becoming a ultra double master guru of linux. And Steve Jobs would be proud of you. Maybe you can even get a job with Apple working in the iCloud? Or maybe not! Nevertheless, onward folks. Onward to the next step!
- Assuming Chrome was successfully installed, go ahead and launch.
- Upon first launch of Chrome, you will be asked to choose a default search engine. Assuming you are a loyal google customer, we already know what you are going to choose. But in the event you choose otherwise, you can select ‘Yahoo’, or ‘Bing’ or whatever that is.
- You will next be asked to choose whether or not you want to make Chrome your default browser. If you don’t agree and would rather have firefox or some other browser – go ahead and uncheck ‘Make Google Chrome the default browser’
- next and after chrome launches, point your browser to tweetdeck.com and you will be automatically prompted to download ‘Chrome TweetDeck’
- after you select ‘download now’, you will be prompted with an option to add TweetDeck to your google account. Simply authenticate with the account you already have, if you dont – plese do us all favor and sign up for one.
- you will then be redirected to the chrome web store, at the bottom right hand side, click on the ‘add to chrome’ button
- you will then be prompted to install TweetDeck to your google account – click ‘install’
- upon successful install via google apps, you will be redirected to the ‘apps’ section of chrome where you can launch TweetDeck! Enjoy friends. And make sure you keep it real on Linux – without adobe!
- Simply create if you don’t have a TweetDeck account or Logon with the account you already have!
Have fun friends.
