[PLUG] Adobe Reader 7.0

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Thu Oct 20 03:35:01 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:22 -0700, John Jordan wrote:
> One of the big reasons I wanted to upgrade my 64-bit Ubuntu 5.04 
> to the new Breezy (5.10) was to see if I could install Adobe Reader 
> 7.0. It wouldn't install under 5.04 -- just aborted with an error 
> message (clearly written by Adobe) that it couldn't be installed in a 
> 64-bit OS. 
> 
> Someone here said he had it running on 64-bit Linux using chroot. 
> And after googling I discovered that it might be installable without 
> chroot as long as the 32-bit libraries are installed.
> 
> Well, lo and behold, what did Breezy install? The 32-bit libraries 
> are right there! (Missing in Hoary.) So I decided to try again to 
> install Reader 7.0. After some figuring out I actually got the 
> INSTALL script to run and it appears to be installed. At least, no 
> error messages this time.
> 
> However, there is a problem. I can't launch it. It did not install a 
> launch menu item under Applications. I searched the whole hard 
> disk and found what must be the executable --
> 
> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
> 
> If I right click on acroread in Konqueror it says it is an executable. I 
> tried double-clicking on it, but nada, not even an error message. 
> Then I noticed the script had decided it was owned by root, so I 
> opened a terminal, su'ed to root, went to intellinux and did chown 
> jjj:jjj bin. After that Konqueror showed me as the owner. But it still 
> won't launch. And if I type acroread at the command line I just get 
> "bash: acroread: command not found." I also went back to /usr and 
> tried to chown everything below it to jjj:jjj, but failed to change 
> some of them. Googling on chown hasn't enlightened me as to why.
> 
> I finally got it installed and it is pissing me off that it won't run. So 
> does anyone know how to run it?

Open a terminal window and use the fully qualified path and name.  Make
sure you can at least execute it.  You may need read permissions, too.
Since you were root, you probably got a permissions issue from the X
windowing system session, which is owned by you.  Change the permissions
on the executable so that anyone can execute it.

Ken
CAD 2 CAM




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