On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:00 am, Gary Morain wrote: > I recently upgraded from RC5 to FC6, and now Adobe Reader acroread is > having problems. At first, I was having the same problem that was > being reported earlier, namely that acroread loops forever while > printing the message 'expr: syntax error'. And so I applied the > > change mentioned by Chris on 10/28/06 wherein he wrote: > > 1) Edit the file /usr/bin/acroread > > > > 2) Replace the line (originally line 418): > > echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]* > > \)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' > > > > ...with the line: > > echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]* > > \)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' > > Now, acroread just exits immediately, without doing anything. You also need to change this line: 644# MIN_GTK_VERSION="240" 645 MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040" I just did the changes tonight and all is well now here :) HTH -Colin -- Fedora Core 6 ("Zod") KDE-Redhat-3.5.5-0.8.fc6 Registered Linux user number #342953 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list