Adobereader won't install

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
> [mickey at localhost ~]$ which acroread
> /usr/bin/acroread
>
> [mickey at localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
>
> /usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
>
> [mickey at localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
>
> [mickey at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb
>
> redhat-lsb-cxx-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-submod-multimedia-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-core-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-submod-security-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-languages-4.1-21.fc20.i686
> redhat-lsb-desktop-4.1-21.fc20.i686
>
>
> If I do a  /usr/bin/acroread  The Red Adobereader window flashes on then goes away fast. 

OK.....

Give this a try.....

As root, edit /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and change the first line to read....

#!/bin/sh --verbose

Then run /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and supply the output.   It is probably best to upload the output to http://fpaste.org/ and supply the url



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