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Although it is not necessary to have Adobe AIR installed on your computer to develop and test Adobe AIR applications, it is useful to have it to try other AIR applications and to test your final application's deployment and packaging.
Installing the runtime is simple, and requires downloading and running the Adobe AIR Installer.
Download the AIR Installer from http://www.adobe.com/go/getair.
Follow the installation instructions.
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It is also possible to install Adobe AIR directly from the runtime via express install. We will cover this in Chapter 4.
As Adobe AIR is simply a runtime and not an application that can be launched, the easiest way to confirm that it is installed correctly is to try installing an AIR application. You can do this by either downloading an AIR application and installing it, or following the instructions later in the chapter to build a simple AIR application.
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You can download sample AIR applications from Adobe's web site, at http://www.adobe.com/go/air_samples.
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