Activate Plugin Action doesn’t work

I’m using WP 2.2.2, trying to add action hook for plugin activation, it doesn’t work. What I was trying is similar to example below (taken from https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins#Calling_the_function).
What’s wrong?

If your plugin file is wp-content/plugins/plugindir/pluginfile.php, you’ll add the following line to the main body of your plugin:

add_action(‘activate_plugindir/pluginfile.php’, ‘jal_install’);