Today my daughter asked me to install Scratch.
But not the tablet. I already did it. On the computer. I tought it was a breeze.
Actually it was as simple as “sudo apt install scratch“. Too bad I got an oldish 1.4 version and her book refers to version 2.0.
To make a long story short, they relied on the piece of rotting proprietary software known as “Adobe AIR”.
There are several guides on how to install it on Linux too, but the one I found to actually work is in a comment of
dpkg – How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)? – Ask Ubuntu
which works also on Debian.