Adobe Reader-en

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You can download Adobe Reader from http://www.adobe.com

$ wget -c http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/enu/AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf AdobeReader*.tar.gz 
$ cd AdobeReader
$ su
# updateos -i gcc-g++ perl gtk+ 
# sh INSTALL --install_path=/opt/Acrobat8.1.2

Problem solution (expr: Syntaxfehler)

Acrobat Reader 7.X have the following problem:

$ acroread 
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error

You can fix the problem in file /usr/bin/acroread (as root (su)) in line 418. You must replace this line

 echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([
0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

with

 echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)000.\([
0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

Source: http://www.fedorablog.de/archives/147-Fedora-Fix-fuer-Adobe-Reader.html

Browser Plugin:

# ln -s /opt/Acrobat8.1.2/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla-plugins/nppdf.so

--Xyz 20:09, 22 May 2007 (CEST)