Installing Adobe AIR on Windows Vista

1. Download Adobe AIR SDK from Adobe labs

2. Extract the archive to a designated folder, in our case E:\AIR. (I am using 7-zip

3. You need to set PATH environment variable to your Adobe AIR bin folder (E:\AIR\bin). To do that, right click on "My Computer" and click on Properties:

4. Click on Advanced system settings and then on the new window click on Environment Variables:

Select "PATH" and click Edit...
Then, type: ;E:\AIR\bin

5. Press Ctrl + R and type cmd. Then type: adt. If a meessage like:

Too few arguments.
usage:
adt -package ...

comes up, then Adobe AIR is installed on your system.

6. Now, to really run something on AIR. Open on your browser: Adobe AIR sample applications.
.


Download Fresh, which is an rss reader built using HTML/javascript/ajax & co and unzip it to E:\AIR\samples\Fresh.
The contents of the folder should look something like this:



Now open a console (if you closed the previous one) and type: e: (go to drive E: or whatever drive you used to unzip Adobe AIR sdk) and then type: cd E:\AIR\samples\Fresh.
Now type: adl application.xml:


And now we have Fresh running on AIR:



Enjoy!