Hi, Thanks for your the help below as well as to Matthew who suggested the RPM approach as well. In the mean time I added the couple of lines to the script which makes it work all right now it would seem (although I understand absolutely nothing of how it really works :-( ). Kind regards, Frederic On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 20:00, Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > Hi Fredeirc, > > In my case I downloaded 2 RPMS as Jim Hayward recommended > Just go to gurulabs.com and grab the RPMS. > > http://gurulabs.com/downloads.html > > So it would also work with my browser and offer it as a choice. > > using the following command as SU > > RPM -ivh --force acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm > RPM -ivh --force acroread-plugin-5.08-2.i386.rpm > > Then Stephen Walton found a work around the acroread which is a script > > Next SU I edited the file acroread script > using vim or you could use your favorite editor emacs or pico > > so in in my case it was in /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread > and in your case it would be /usr/local/bin/acroread > > by adding the following as lines 4,5,6 > > #Work around until Acrobat gets Unicode locale support > LANG=C > LC_ALL=C > > # and just before > ver=5.0.8 > install_dir= > > and it now works. > > Hope this helps and Good Luck > > Chris > > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:45, Frederic on ImediatiX wrote: > > Hi (again), > > > > hmm, in the mean time I found where the start-up script was and put a > > link to it from /usr/local/bin (found this on > > http://linuxheadquarters.com/howto/apps/acrobat.shtml). However it still > > does not work : > > > > $ acroread > > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". > > Aborted > > $ > > > > All help is welcome. > > > > Thanks. > > Frederic > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:29, Frederic on ImediatiX wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > > > I'm trying to learn about linux and how to use it. Please direct me to a > > > better suited list for beginners if you think I ask too basic questions. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > I downloaded Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux and installed it : i.e. I ran > > > the INSTALL script (under root). I did this because I couldn't open > > > VMware PDFs with the default RH9 application 'ggv'. Now how do I > > > > > > - launch acrobat > > > > > > - tell my system to use Acrobat reader as default application for PDFs ? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Kind regards, > > > Frederic > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: unsubscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
