Installing AIR SDK on Ubuntu?

Hi everyone,
I am about to pull my hair off. I have tried to spent the complete morning to install the Adobe AIR SDK on my Ubuntu machine and it just won't work.
The runtime version is already installed and have verified it to be working with various apps.
I have Googled like never before to get a solution by myself, before asking here and have so far been able to find two tutorials (this and this) which I've followed the instructions of to end up with the same result;
Typing adl in the terminal ends up with Runtime not found being thrown.
What can I do?
Thanks!

Hi again,
I think we're getting closer!
I had to use a slightly different syntax in my Ubuntu install to avoid errors;
export PATH=$PATH:"/home/AdobeAIRSDK/bin/"
Unfortunately, the above setting gives the very same errors I mentioned earlier. (Runtime not found (No such file or directory) & Unable to access jarfile /bin/../lib/adt.jar).
Setting PATH to the what is shown below does however make ADL & ADT commands to work, but unfortunately killed pretty much every terminal command that I'd tried...
export PATH=:"/home/AdobeAIRSDK/bin/"
Any suggestion?

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