Re: Adobereader won't install

Mickey <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:23:51 -0400



    On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:

    
        On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM,
          Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          
               On 06/30/2014 04:23
                AM, Temlakos wrote:

                
                  On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:

                  
                  yum -y localinstall
                    AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm 

                    
                    Yum does install  AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
                    but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader
                    won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
                    

                  I think it's because the name of the command is now
                  changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note:
                  that's case-sensitive.

                  
                  "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF editor.

                  
                  And by the way: the latest version is more than a year
                  old.

                  
                  Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for
                  Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF
                  viewer is for Gnome?

                  
                  Temlakos

                  
                Hi,

                    If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by
                Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system
                the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that
                the acroread file is executable and that you have
                read/write access to all files/folders within that path.
                I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it
                produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and
                wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I
                clicked on widgets to add them to my development project
                in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out
                to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when
                I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it
                resolved my problems.

                
                regards,

                Steve

                
              Forget all about adobe
                pdf readers

                
                Run

                
              yum -y install evince

                
              and be done with it.

                
              On my machine:

                
              yum list evince    

              Installed Packages

              evince.x86_64                                          
              3.10.3-1.fc20                                          
              @fedora
          
        
    My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America  BSA
    all their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .

    
    Would you know where I can get the pdf-to-text.rpm, I could probably
    download the pdf's from BSA website and edit them with pdf-to-text.

  
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