Aaron,
You installation was apparently a bit more successful than mine. I just downloaded linux-506.tar.gz from Adobe's web site, unpacked it with 'tar xfvz ...', and got the following files:
total 25152 -rwxrwxr-x 1 10490 users 2489856 Jul 8 2002 COMMON.TAR -r-xr-xr-x 1 10490 users 13596 Jul 1 2002 INSTALL -rwxrwxr-x 1 10490 users 22501 Jan 23 2002 LICREAD.TXT -rw-rw-r-- 1 10490 users 23165440 Jul 10 2002 LINUXRDR.TAR -r-xr-xr-x 1 10490 users 21451 Jul 1 2002 README
Following the instructions in README I ran:
# ./INSTALL -bash: ./INSTALL: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
Wha' happened???
Good question. I did exactly what you did ant the INSTALL file executed. Sounds like something is wron with you /bin/sh. I would try changing the first line from: #!/bin/sh to: #!/bin/bash and see if it works.
# chown root.root * # ./INSTALL
evtl. mv the files into your ~
-- shrek-m