Re: Adobereader won't install

[Mickey]

On 06/30/2014 06:29 PM, JD wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mickey <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> On 06/30/2014 05:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>     On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
>
>         [mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
>
>         /usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to
>         `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
>
>         [mickey@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
>
>     Strange....
>
>     Your symbolic link points to an older location....
>
>     Try executing
>     "/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread " directly
>     from the command line....
>
>
>
>
> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while
> loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
>
> ​Sometimes, when I run into these situations, I find that
> I am on a 64 bit system, trying to run a 32 bit application,
> whose required libs are looked for in /usr/lib, instead of
> /usr/lib64, and are not found.
>
> Just wondering if that is your situation too.​

No, I have a 32 bit system and a 32 bit (486) AdobeReader.rpm.