Thanks to Yuri Sklar for the tip! There is a new hipchat release and it's mighty fast.
First thing's first. Uninstall the old stuff. Hipchat uses a generated deb package so you just have to grep for the name and apt-get remove it. Uninstalling Adobe AIR is as simple as doing: sudo apt-get remove adobeair.
The new Hipchat client can be installed by following the instructions here.
Essentially, it amounts to adding: deb http://downloads.hipchat.com/linux/apt stable main to the apt-get sources and then installing the apt key.
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