• This tutorial will work inside a folder called ‘xul’

sh:~$ mkdir xul

• XULRunner
• This walk-through uses the Linux release 1.8.0.1
• Unzip the tar.gz file you just downloaded

sh:location_of_downloaded_xulrunner$ tar zxvf xulrunner-1.8.0.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

• Copy the resulting xulrunner folder to be under the ~/xul folder

sh:~$ cp -r location_of_downloaded_xulrunner/xulrunner ~/xul/xulrunner

• Macromedia's website has a link near the bottom that allows you to download the flash player.
• The current link for the linux tar.gz ‘installer’ is here
• Unzip this file

sh:location_of_downloaded_flash_installer$tar zxvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

• Copy the two files flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in the tar.gz file you previously unzipped and paste the into the xulrunner folder we created.

sh:~$cp -r location_of_downloaded_flash_installer/flashplayer.xpt ~/xul/xulrunner/plugins/flashplayer.xpt

sh:~$cp -r location_of_downloaded_flash_installer/libflashplayer.so ~/xul/xulrunner/plugins/libflashplayer.so

• The folder structure were getting looks like this

xul

test

chrome

content

test

defaults

preferences

xulrunner

• Create folder structure ‘~/xul/test/chrome/content/test’

sh:~$ mkdir -p ~/xul/test/chrome/content/test

• Create folder structure ‘~/xul/test/defaults/preferences’

sh:~$ mkdir -p ~/xul/test/defaults/preferences

• Create a file inside ~/xul/test called ‘runapp.sh’ with the contents

#!/bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/../xulrunner xulrunner application.ini

• Create a file inside ~/xul/test called ‘application.ini’ with the contents

[App]
Vendor=companyname
Name=test
Version=0.1
BuildID=20060220
Copyright=Nonsense
ID=somespecialidprobablyrelatedtosomekindofsubversioninfo

[Gecko]
MinVersion=1.8
MaxVersion=1.8

• Create a file inside ~/xul/test/chrome called ‘chrome.manifest’ with the contents

content test file:content/test/

• Create a file inside ~/xul/test/chrome/content/test called ‘start.xul’ with the contents

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>
<window
	title="Test"
	xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" 
	style="width:750px;height:550px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"> 
  <html:embed src="app.swf" width="750" height="550"/>
</window>

• Create a file inside ‘~/xul/defaults/preferences’ called ‘prefs.js’ with the contents

pref(”toolkit.defaultChromeURI”,”chrome://test/content/start.xul”);

• You’ll need to place your SWF file in the ~/xul/test/chrome/content/test folder.
• You might need to tweak the width and height settings of the XULRunner window as well as the attributes on the html:embed tag in the start.xul file to fit your application
• Make sure that the name of the main SWF matches the file referenced in the src attribute of the html:embed tag
• Make sure the runapp.sh file is executable

sh:~$chmod u+x ~/xul/test/runapp.sh

• Run the ‘runapp.sh’ executable script file from the test folder and enjoy!!

sh:~$cd ~/xul/test

sh:~$./runapp.sh