Adobereader won't install

[Frank McCormick]

On 29/06/14 08:01 PM, Mickey wrote:
>
> On 06/29/2014 07:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris
>>>> <samorris at netspace.net.au <mailto:samorris at netspace.net.au>> 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 .
>>
>>
>>
>>   I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all
>> their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.
>>
>>
>>
> What and where is the Chrome built-in PDF reader, is it a extension or
> what.


   No, it's not an extension. AFAIK it's built-in to Chrome.

>
> When I use Chrome go onto the BSA website it tells me I must have
> AdobeReader-9 0r greater.


   That's strange. When I went there with Chrome I didn't get any warning.

>
> Can you edit the PDF's on their website ?   To fill in spaces.

   Good question...which I can't answer. But in my experience
many sites with PDF files you can fill in require...can I say it? 
Windows apps. :)


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