I downloaded the Adobe Air SDK so I could develop some Air applications, but once I downloaded it, I was at a loss of how to go about installing it. Adobe's instructions are missing from the package and nowhere to be found on their site. I have a PPC mac, so these instructions should work for those with that configuration. If you have an Intel mac, I am assuming this would work for that as well. It should also work for other *nix type operating systems.

I have a folder at the root level called Libs. I decided to put all the directories in there in a subfolder called airsdk. So my path to airsdk is /Libs/airsdk. Then I opened my terminal and typed cd ~ to go to my home folder. Then I sued vi to edit my .bash_profile by typing vi .bash_profile. Once I was in vi I moved my cursor to the line that says export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH. Yours may not look like this, but it should be similar. If you don't have that line, you will have to add it. I moved my cursor to the colon right before $PATH and typed the a key to tell vi I wanted to append the line at this point. I then added the path to the airsdk bin folder. After I edited the line it looked like this: export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Libs/airsdk/bin:$PATH; I hit the escape key then typed in :w! to write out the changes, then :q! to quit vi.

I then quit the terminal and relaunched it. That way the new executable path was recognized by the terminal. To verify that I now had a working version of the air sdk installed and it was executable, in my terminal, I typed adt -help and got a small but reasonable help file. If you don't have the path right you will get a message from the terminal stating adt command not found.

That's it. Now that it's installed correctly, it's time to build and Air application.